POL November 3: The 2020 U.S. ELECTION DAY MAIN THREAD

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‘Sedition Hunters’ Turn Capitol Insurrection Into Ultimate Online Manhunt

Amateur sleuths have turned the Washington D.C. insurrection on Jan. 6 into the ultimate online manhunt.

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■ June 7, 2021, 12:01 AM

THE SEDITION HUNTERS
Amateur internet sleuths have turned the Washington, D.C., insurrection on Jan. 6 into the ultimate online manhunt.

By David Yaffe-Bellany
Photo Illustration by Adam Ferriss
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As he watched footage of the Jan. 6 siege of the U.S. Capitol, Chris Sigurdson, an out-of-work actor in Canada, found himself drawn to a disturbing image: a man in an olive sweatshirt spraying chemicals at the police. On the man’s face, Sigurdson says, was a look of “demented glee.”

Sigurdson, 58, had been growing obsessed with the riot, spending 40 hours a week poring over photographs and videos. He noticed a resemblance between the man in the sweatshirt and a rioter who bragged about attacking police officers in a different video recorded at a hotel in Virginia. When he looked closely, he could see that they were the same person, carrying the same backpack.

Sigurdson posted his findings on Twitter at the end of January. Two weeks later, the FBI arrested Daniel Ray Caldwell of The Colony, Texas. An affidavit cited Sigurdson’s tweet as evidence. (Caldwell has pleaded not guilty to the seven federal crimes he’s charged with.)

▲ A sedition hunter in California built a facial recognition database and identified a man who was later charged for his role in the Jan. 6 siege.
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The arrest was an early triumph for the growing community of self-proclaimed sedition hunters—a motley assortment of internet sleuths who have spent hundreds of hours analyzing the reams of footage that emerged from the insurrection. Over the past few months, the sleuths have coalesced into an expansive network that shares and cross-references videos and social media posts, dissecting the material on Twitter or in private group chats on platforms like Discord.

“Every person brings a piece of the puzzle together,” Sigurdson says. “People are only able to really hone in on somebody based on the work that everyone else is doing.”

Senate Republicans recently blocked a bill in Congress to create an independent, Sept. 11-style commission to investigate the riot, making it increasingly unlikely that the U.S. government will ever produce a comprehensive and impartial accounting of the attack. On the internet, however, ordinary people are conducting investigations of their own, bolstering the FBI’s official inquiry while raising concerns that untrained vigilantes might broadcast the personal information of innocent people.

▲ A person wanted by the FBI for assaulting a federal officer on Jan. 6.

Five months on from Jan. 6, the authorities have brought charges against more than 400 rioters, often using the traditional tools of law enforcement, such as search warrants and confidential informants. But they’ve also relied on the crowdsourcing efforts of sedition hunters. In the days after the riot, the FBI saw a 750% increase in daily calls and electronic tips to its main hotline.

The bureau still receives twice the normal volume of alerts. Such tips have proved helpful in “dozens of cases,” says Samantha Shero, an FBI spokeswoman. “The public has provided tremendous assistance to this investigation, and we are asking for continued help to identify other individuals.”

Some sedition hunters are now trying to identify people who stormed the Capitol but haven’t been apprehended—the FBI’s official wanted list still features hundreds of photos. Others have moved on to more sophisticated projects, looking for evidence of additional crimes by people who have already been charged, or tracing clues that could shed light on whether far-right groups plotted the riot in advance.

“There’s a sense that this stuff still has to come out and be in the public domain, otherwise we risk being in a situation where the history gets missed,” says John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the University of Toronto’s Citizen Lab, which focuses on digital threats to civil society. “The fact these groups still exist shows just how much people care.”

Despite the hundreds of arrests, there remain significant unanswered questions about the riot, from the extent to which Donald Trump’s allies aided the protesters to the level of coordination among far-right groups. Those mysteries have helped turn sedition hunting from a crowdsourcing project into a kind of internet subculture. Amateur historians of the Kennedy assassination could rewind the Zapruder film only so many times; Capitol riot obsessives have a seemingly infinite amount of footage to examine. Websites have popped up with titles like jan6evidence.com or seditionhunters.org, featuring research tools assembled by the sleuths: a gallery of hundreds of rioters, each identified by a hashtag such as #Tweedledumb or #camocrazyeyes; a map connecting videos of the siege to specific locations around the Capitol; and a set of links to annotated videos. In the online community, the release of an important new court document is eagerly anticipated, “like it’s the next hot bestseller,” as one sedition hunter puts it.

Many sedition hunters share their best information with FBI agents or investigative journalists.

But as with previous online crowdsourcing initiatives, the effort has had some high-profile misfires. A retired Chicago firefighter was falsely accused of participating in the riot after footage surfaced showing a lookalike hitting police with a fire extinguisher. So was the actor and martial artist Chuck Norris.

Even accurate identifications can set a dangerous precedent and may embolden far-right groups to employ similar tactics against their own targets, says Oren Segal, vice president of the Anti-Defamation League’s Center on Extremism. “As soon as you put someone’s personal information out there, you just don’t know what’s going to happen,” Segal says. “When you do it publicly, there’s just a lot more that can go wrong.”

Still, the online sleuths appear to have learned from past mistakes, like Reddit users’ misidentification of a suspect in the Boston Marathon bombing in 2013. Several Twitter accounts that have helped mobilize Jan. 6 research efforts explicitly warn their followers to avoid naming suspects, urging them to report personal information to the FBI. In the weeks after the riot, established open source researchers sought to channel the intense interest in the siege toward less risky tasks—logging material into Google forms, for example, or making copies of photos to preserve evidence.

“There’s a way to harness it,” says Eliot Higgins, the founder of Bellingcat, an open source research organization. “If you can give them a useful outlet for their energy, then it’s more productive. … Because they don’t know what they’re doing.”

▲ An affidavit filed in connection with the case against Daniel Ray Caldwell, which cites a tweet by Chris Sigurdson.

Most sedition hunters contacted by Bloomberg Businessweek were reluctant to speak on the record for fear of retaliation from internet trolls. One expressed concern that the “layers between those we work on and the former administration are paper thin.” Another declined to be interviewed but offered to provide the names of rioters who haven’t been arrested.

Many of the sleuths have treated the project as a full-time job, creating infrastructure to help fellow investigators sort through the footage. A sedition hunter in California built a facial recognition database that the community has used to identify rioters. (The site’s tagline: “They should have worn some f#$!ng masks.”) Such tactics have sparked concern among civil liberties advocates, who argue that the proliferation of facial recognition technology has eroded privacy.

The database’s creator, who works in the health-care industry, defended the tool, saying it simply automated the time-consuming process of cross-referencing Jan. 6 images. He used the technology to identify Taylor Johnatakis, a podcaster from Washington state who was later charged for his role in the siege. (Johnatakis pleaded not guilty.) The creator says he felt a civic obligation to alert the FBI but took no joy in Johnatakis’s arrest. “He’s an honest-to-God good guy, completely brainwashed by Trump,” he says. “I hope the justice system is forgiving.”

The sleuths’ stated motivations range from righteous outrage to a nerdy fascination with the technical challenges of identifying suspects. “We want these people brought to justice,” says Forrest Rogers, a German-American business consultant who helps run a sedition-hunting group called Deep State Dogs. “And we don’t want a random sampling of them, a token group.”

Sigurdson says his interest stemmed from a combination of curiosity and pandemic-induced boredom. (“I’d mastered sourdough bread.”) He wanted to understand why seemingly normal people had converged on the Capitol to attempt to overthrow American democracy. “I don’t think anger would’ve sustained me through this whole process,” he says. “It’s more of a deep quest for comprehension.” He still spends hours a day researching the attack.

For some, watching all that riot footage has exacted a mental toll. Several sedition hunters noted that the audio is especially disturbing—an angry cacophony of screaming and swearing.

At a certain point, Rogers turned down the volume on the videos and started listening to classical music; he’s become accustomed to watching the Proud Boys march on the Capitol with Tchaikovsky playing in the background. Rogers has discussed the issue of burnout with others in the community. “You see them drop off for a month,” he says. “And we’d DM each other, and they’d say, ‘I have to take a break, it was doing my head in.’”

Another sedition hunter, a stay-at-home mom in the Pacific Northwest, annotated nearly 100 hours of video, which she compiled in a spreadsheet that’s been widely shared. She recently began an even more ambitious project: tracking a Proud Boy leader who she believes may have mobilized a group of rioters to block exits around the Capitol, a possible sign of coordination and planning.


▲ A person wanted by the FBI for assaulting a federal officer on Jan. 6.

Like Rogers, she usually keeps the video on mute. But the images are searing. After watching all the footage, she says, she’s formed a three-dimensional map of the Capitol in her mind, built around images of violence and mayhem. She’s never seen the complex in person.

“I do want to visit,” she says, “and maybe purge some of those images from my head.”

 

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Here's Why So Many Republicans are Involved in Covering Up 2020 Election Fraud

Being labeled a “conspiracy theorist” by those using the term as a pejorative has become commonplace for me. The funny part is I was railing against other conspiracy theorists not too long ago, back in my “normie” days when I still thought there was a chance the system could be fixed with enough...

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Here’s Why So Many Republicans are Involved in Covering Up 2020 Election Fraud

Some will call this a "conspiracy theory" and dismiss it outright. Question their logic, but more importantly question their motives.

by Durk Jerc

June 7, 2021


Being labeled a “conspiracy theorist” by those using the term as a pejorative has become commonplace for me. The funny part is I was railing against other conspiracy theorists not too long ago, back in my “normie” days when I still thought there was a chance the system could be fixed with enough information getting out to the masses.

I’ll be labeled a conspiracy theorist again for this article despite the fact that it’s 100% true.

Much of it is demonstrable. The rest is informed speculation, which is to say we know it’s true without having the clearance to prove it legally. All of it comes down to common sense as well, but I cringe when I realize there just isn’t very much common sense in the world today.

The 2020 presidential election, plus dozens of city and state elections, were stolen. We know this based on careful analysis over the past few months of everything we can get our hands on.

From affidavits to videos and from data analyses to anecdotal reports, we’ve come to the conclusion with 100% certainty that massive, widespread voter fraud took place and it was more than enough to swing the elections in the wrong direction.

It’s important that readers understand we’ve put unprecedented efforts into finding and disseminating the information to prove it, but the roadblocks have been insurmountable. To say it’s like David vs Goliath would be apropos because David was only able to win with the support of God Almighty and only God could overcome the concerted effort to suppress the truth in this case.

Through our investigative travels, one common theme kept popping up. It became so ubiquitous that I assumed it was common knowledge that many important members of the Republican Party were directly involved in the conspiracy. It isn’t just Georgia Governor Brian Kemp or Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger. There are more Republican hands in this filthy voter fraud pot than I would have ever imagined before, which is why I’m shocked so few seem to realize it. Like I said, we thought it was common knowledge that the reason this was so successful was because Republicans were running cover.

What we now know is that for many of them, it wasn’t by choice. There are three ways to make people do things they don’t want to do: Bullying, Bribery, and Blackmail. The last “B” in the bunch is what turned many Republicans to the dark side. To understand this, let’s put up a little background information.

Republicans were the first ones targeted by the “digital voter fraud” bait. Voting machine companies went to GOP candidates starting in 2002 and gave them ways to win. It ramped up over the years until the Obama era when as many as ten percent of the major Republican candidates who won did so through voter fraud. That’s a tough pill for many Republican voters to swallow, but it’s true. A good writeup by Jennifer Cohn in 2018 details it nicely, focusing on Georgia as the epicenter of voter fraud (imagine that!). Here’s a excerpt, but I recommend reading the whole thing:

The national significance of the contest brought forth a flood of advertising and organization, making it the most expensive House race of all time. The top two contenders were Republican Karen Handel (an anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, pro-gun “Christian”) and Democrat Jon Ossoff (who is pro-choice on abortion, pro-gay rights, and less gun happy than Handel).

But even before the first ballot was cast, election integrity advocates and IT experts were sounding the alarm about the integrity of the race. Georgia is one of just five states that still exclusively uses paperless voting machines. Paperless voting machines are an especially attractive target for hackers because there is nothing to compare against the electronic tally to confirm whether it was manipulated. Thus, the only way to know if a paperless machine has been hacked is to conduct a forensic audit, which courts have consistently refused to allow based on the purportedly proprietary nature of the vendors’ software.

Jumping ahead, here’s another important section in the article:

Like Diebold, ES&S has had its share of publicity. In 1996, Republican Chuck Hagel, a first-time candidate, ran for the U.S. senate in Nebraska and managed to defeat the Democratic incumbent by 15 points, even though pre-election polls had called the race a dead heat.

Hagel “miraculously won virtually every demographic group in the state, including large African American communities that had never previously voted Republican.” Hagel was also the first Republican to win a Nebraska senate race since 1972.

Hagel’s surprising landslide victory raised eyebrows because Hagel had been the chairman of AIS (ES&S’s predecessor) until a few weeks or perhaps even just a few days before he announced his candidacy. Nebraska election officials reported that AIS machines had counted about 85% of the votes in the race.

ES&S has had many reported failures since the Hagel election, as detailed on a startlingly long list (with links to news articles) created by a group called Voters Unite In 2006.

In 2007, a team of researchers at the University of Pennsylvania conducted a security evaluation of ES&S optical scanners and ES&S touchscreen voting machines and published a report (the “Everest report”), stating that they had found “numerous exploitable vulnerabilities in nearly every component of the ES&S system … These vulnerabilities enable attacks that could alter or forge precinct results, install corrupt firmware, and erase audit records.”

In 2010, the Department of Justice forced ES&S to sell Diebold because the combined company accounted for more than 70% of US election equipment, violating anti-trust laws. In a settlement with the DOJ, Diebold purportedly dissolved, and its assets were split between ES&S and a Canadian company called Dominion Voting.

The following year, an interim election board in Venango County, Pennsylvania commissioned a forensic audit of the county’s 100% unverifiable ES&S iVotronic touch-screen voting systems. The court, county Commissioners, and ES&S eventually shut down the audit (with ES&S threatening legal action against the board members and scientists). But an interim report stated that the scientists had found “evidence that the system was repeatedly accessed by an unidentified remote computer, for lengthy periods of time, on “multiple occasions.”

The same year, a laboratory run by the Department of Energy showed how Diebold voting machines — used by a third of all voters nationwide (at the time), including Georgia — could be hacked via remote control.

By then, Georgia’s governor, Sonny Perdue, had appointed Brian Kemp to the office of Secretary of State, replacing Handel who had left office to pursue an unsuccessful bid for governor.

Kemp expressed no interest in replacing Georgia’s paperless machines, and the national media gave him little grief.

But that has begun to change courtesy of the Georgia 6th District special election in 2017. On March 3, 2017, a little more than a month before the primary, Politico and other national news outlets reported that the FBI was investigating a breach at Georgia’s Center for Election Systems at Kennesaw State University.”

And a few weeks later, equipment “used to check-in voters at the polls” — including a “flash card with a voter list” — was stolen from a parked car.

A concerned national election integrity advocate, Marilyn Marks, filed a lawsuit to compel Kemp to use hand marked paper ballots (counted on optical scanners) in the race. But Georgia Secretary of State Kemp swiftly defeated it on a procedural technicality (sovereign immunity), declaring that the machines are “safe and accurate.”

Kemp assured voters that Georgia’s voting machines could not be hacked because they aren’t connected to the internet. But he omitted to mention that all voting machines, including those in Georgia, must receive programming before each election from centralized election management systems that can and often do connect to the internet

Kemp also omitted to mention that Georgia uses a single flash drive to upload its election results from a central tabulator to an online Election Night Reporting System and then reinserts the same flash drive into the same central tabulator for the next round of results. Thus, if the flash drive becomes infected with malware from the online reporting system, it could spread the malware to the central tabulator and change the results from each polling place as they are uploaded.

On the night of the primary, Ossoff was poised to win the primary outright with 50.3% of the vote when the counting stopped, causing a stir on social media (and presumably elsewhere):



An hour or so later, CNN announced that there had been a “technical glitch” in Fulton County. According to the local news, the glitch involved a “rare memory card problem.”

When the counting finally resumed around 11:00 p.m., Ossoff’s total had dropped from 50.3% to 48.6%.

Yes, it’s a lot of reading, but it’s important for everyone to understand that the only way they were able to keep so many important players in the Republican Party quiet was to make sure they were complicit in the overall voter fraud conspiracy that has been in place for nearly two decades. They were hooked in and when it came time for people to start asking questions, they had to do everything they could to cover it up for the sake of self-protection.

Lest we forget, Democrats had noticed these discrepancies over the years and were leading the charge to fight digital voter fraud as recently as March, 2020. Then, suddenly, inexplicably, they went silent on the issue right around the time Joe Biden was being installed as the Democratic nominee for president. As NOQ Report noted last November:

Ever since the 2016 election, Democrats on Capitol Hill have been pummeling the voting machine industry and the “big three” companies who control it. They held hearings, sent subpoenas, and made demands incessantly. Then, in March, 2020, they suddenly stopped. What changed?

Some would say that it’s because the election was near and they didn’t want to cast doubts on the results. But that doesn’t jibe with the fact they were yelling and screaming about it prior to the 2018 midterm elections. In fact, they were demanding answers as close as three days prior to the election.

In the latest episode of NOQ Report, Tammy and I explored this topic thoroughly. This was really Tammy’s episode as she did a ton of research on it. I sat back and let her rant most of the time, a refreshing change from our recent shows. What we discovered is that there seems to be a very strong likelihood that Democrats stopped challenging voting machine companies because their freshly revived primary candidate, former Vice President Joe Biden, was fresh off a win in South Carolina and showed signs of life.

We believe the vast majority of Democrats and even a few Republicans cut deals to back off their scrutiny in exchange for “help” from voting machine companies like Dominion Voting Systems. The timing was just too convenient.

Here’s how it all went down. This is based in part on speculation, but it’s speculation that has been pieced together from facts that we’ve been able to acquire over the past several months. We were not intending to come up with this. If anything, the hope was to find that Democrats working with globalist elites were behind it all with a handful of Republicans in their pockets to help. What we found is that there are many Republicans involved. Now we know why.

Many powerful Republicans fell for the trap that has been being set over and over again since 2002, a trap that culminated in 2018 when they had all of the right people in place. These Republicans were not told that they would be blackmailed, of course. They thought the voting companies and other entities helping them win elections were doing so to promote the GOP agenda. Instead, it was just a way to get enough of them in the pockets of those who despise the GOP agenda. They’ve been working on behalf of the leftists all along, only pretending to be “conservative” to lure in Republican lawmakers they could then control.

This is why Democrats were fighting so hard all the way up until they were clued into the endgame. The thought they were fighting a vast rightwing conspiracy to keep Democrats out of office when in fact they learned that it was all for them from the beginning. They had to suffer some inexplicable losses like Jon Ossoff’s special election congressional loss in order to have the right people in place to cover up the big theft of 2020. Ossoff is now a Senator.

The reason so many Republicans are opposed to exposing voter fraud is because they would be exposed as a result. They might claim to fight for the GOP and for America, but at the end of they day they’re fighting for themselves.

 

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Republicans Flip Mayorship of McAllen, Texas - Major Border Town with 85% Hispanic Population

Republicans are celebrating after Javier Villalobos won the mayor’s race in McAllen, Texas. McAllen is a major border town of 140,000 and 85% Hispanic. Recall, Hidalgo County went to Joe Biden by 17 points in the 2020 election. Republicans flipped the seat in a major win this weekend. Valley...

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Republicans Flip Mayorship of McAllen, Texas – Major Border Town with 85% Hispanic Population

By Cristina Laila
Published June 7, 2021 at 11:09am

Republicans are celebrating after Javier Villalobos won the mayor’s race in McAllen, Texas.
McAllen is a major border town of 140,000 and 85% Hispanic.

Recall, Hidalgo County went to Joe Biden by 17 points in the 2020 election.
Republicans flipped the seat in a major win this weekend.

Valley Central reported:





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Just to clarify on this article. Whitacre is not complete last name. Her name Veronica Vela-whitacre. So it may not be all it has been made out to be. Showing some bias possibly. I do not know.

 

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MONDAY NIGHT AMERICA'S AUDIT UPDATE: 80% COUNTED - Ken Bennett Says "Several Weeks" Before Auditors will Confirm or Deny Biden's Win (Video) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

On Monday afternoon, The Gateway Pundit correspondent, Jordan Conradson spoke with Arizona Audit Senate Liasion Ken Bennett for the latest update on the momentous audit of the 2020 election.

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MONDAY NIGHT AMERICA’S AUDIT UPDATE: 80% COUNTED – Ken Bennett Says “Several Weeks” Before Auditors will Confirm or Deny Biden’s Win (Video)

By Jordan Conradson
Published June 7, 2021 at 7:34pm

On Monday afternoon, The Gateway Pundit correspondent, Jordan Conradson spoke with Arizona Audit Senate Liasion Ken Bennett for the latest update on the momentous audit of the 2020 election.

At 10 AM this morning, they were just starting their 7th untouched pallet of boxes. When Conradson checked back in at 2 PM, that pallet was halfway completed. They will likely have just 5 untouched pallets tomorrow morning.

Jordan Conradson: What is the current ballot count?

Ken Bennett: Well I don’t have a precise count but I think we’re going to probably be about 80% completed by the end of the day, and I’m hearing that we’ll be all the way through the hand count this week. Now there’s also the paper evaluation that is running well behind the hand count of the votes on the ballots but anyone who’s been watching the floor can see that we’ve reduced the number of counting tables and increased significantly the number of paper valuation tables that are doing the images of the ballot and things like that. So we’re shifting resources to the area that we’re a little bit behind in which is the paper evaluation.

The Gateway Pundit reported On Thursday night, the audit team started packing up the yellow tables, in order to make room for forensics tables due to their nearing completion of counting.

Conradson: When can we expect a result that either confirms or denies Biden won?

Bennett: Well that’s going to be several weeks thereafter. In addition to the hand count which might be done this week, the paper evaluation is going to probably take all of June and we have the facility through the end of June. So, we’re going to have to do a lot of work to catch up on the paper evaluation but both of those things need to be completed and then there will be a few weeks of putting the report together.

We still also have the opportunity, and I think it’s imperative that we take the opportunity to verify at least thousands of the envelope signatures to make sure that there weren’t blank signatures allowed to go through the mail in process because that signature of the voter on the envelope is the voter’s affidavit that their ballot is inside. We’ve heard rumors that there may have been thousands of envelopes allowed to go through and opened and ballots counted without any signature whatsoever on the envelope. If that happened that’s a huge no-no and so there are other very important things besides just the hand count and the paper evaluation that yet or yet to be done.

Conradson: That’s going to be another part of the process?

Bennett: Yes.

Conradson: Has there been any attempts of interference by the left or board supervisors, anymore of that?

Bennett: Well, the Secretary of State’s office released a report supposedly of things that they felt weren’t going the way they should be. Most of them were either untrue, inconsequential or a bunch of BS. In fact one of them involved me although they didn’t name me. They said that three people were on one particular day three people were rifling through the UOCAVA ballots, the OR the military, and overseas ballots where people can vote by fax or email and I was one of those three people and nobody including myself was rifling through any ballots. We were carefully going through the ballots and weighing them to see how many approximately were in each box. Nobody was rifling through the ballots but that’s what the SOS’s report said so those kinds of things continue to be propagated every day to distract people from what’s really happening and create a false narrative, but we just have to keep our heads down stay focused and keep doing what we’re doing.

Little Ryan Macias must have disseminated this lie and crafted a narrative with whoever he answers to. Conradson saw Ken Bennett and two others carefully doing what was necessary with these ballots recently, and he snapped a shot to ensure this was documented.

Conradson: Is there a backup plan in place in case they somehow come in shut this down?

Bennett: I don’t think that there’s a real likelihood of that happening so we’re so close now to having the hand count done that I think that will be finished sometime this week and then the paper evaluation will catch up with that and be done before the end of the month, which is when we have this facility through.

Conradson: Do you have an update on the routers and passwords?

Bennett: No, the county continues to refuse to provide the second passwords and provide access as the subpoena required, and as they initially said that they would allow access to the routers to verify whether there’s any signature IP address or signature or evidence of things being hooked up to the Internet they had the two companies came in and said that they looked at the equipment and couldn’t find that evidence but to me, that’s the fox guarding the henhouse because those are the companies that already certified the equipment and is not supposed to be able to do that in the 1st place so I didn’t expect much from their auditors (which they weren’t) but I didn’t expect any much from their valuation so we remain disappointed and committed to trying to get access to the routers and the second passwords to see what the setup was on those 385 machines.

Conradson: What is the next step in obtaining that information?

Bennett: Eventually, you get to a point where the Senate would have to hold them in contempt and we know that there’s at least one of the 16 senators that weren’t willing to hold them in contempt for some other things. Would they be willing to vote in this situation? Hard to say.

HISTORIC. This never-before-seen process is coming to an end, and with the hand-count coming to an end likely this week, we should have an answer on who won the 2020 election in Arizona in the coming weeks.

Paul Bowyer was the Senator that voted no to hold the MCBOS in contempt for defying legislative subpoenas in the past. He had previously lied and claimed to be in support of this action. Paul Bowyer needs to stop with the lies if we are to see these routers and passwords.

Until then, the Arizona Audit is coming to conclusion and more states, including Georgia, will come out this week for on the scene tours, starting Tuesday. The Freight Train of Audits is FULL STEAM across the country!


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BOOM! Gen. Mike Flynn Drops Powerful Video - Trump Warns "Dishonest and Corrupt" Evildoers What's Coming, "It's Our Turn, And the Gloves Are Off" | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

President Trump: As everybody knows, my family, your great country and your president have gone through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people. They have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing have very badly hurt our nation. They know what they are doing is...

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BOOM! Gen. Mike Flynn Drops Powerful Video – Trump Warns “Dishonest and Corrupt” Evildoers What’s Coming, “It’s Our Turn, And the Gloves Are Off”

By Jim Hoft
Published June 7, 2021 at 6:35pm

President Trump: As everybody knows, my family, your great country and your president have gone through a terrible ordeal by some very dishonest and corrupt people. They have done everything possible to destroy us and by so doing have very badly hurt our nation. They know what they are doing is wrong. But they put themselves far ahead of our great country. Weeks ago and again yesterday courageous Republican politicians and leaders had the wisdom, fortitude and strength to do what everyone knows was right. I don’t like people who use their faith for justification for doing what they know is wrong. Nor, do I like people who say, “I pray for you,” when they know that that’s not so. So many people have been hurt. We can’t let that go on.

The video then ends with three screens including these two:

Now it’s our turn.

Gloves are off.

Here is the video.

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Obama: Worrisome Republicans 'Cowed' to Neo-Nazi-Praising Trump by Assaulting Voting

Former President Barack Obama said Monday during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that it is cause for concern that the Republican Party "cowed" to former President Donald Trump's claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election by passing restrictive voting laws. | Clips

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Obama: Worrisome Republicans ‘Cowed’ to Neo-Nazi-Praising Trump by Assaulting Voting

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Former President Barack Obama said Monday during an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper that it is cause for concern that the Republican Party “cowed” to former President Donald Trump’s claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential election by passing restrictive voting laws.

Obama said, “I think we have to worry when one of our major political parties is willing to embrace a way of thinking about our democracy that would be unrecognizable and unacceptable even five years ago or a decade ago. When you look at some of the laws that are being passed at the state legislative level where legislators are basically saying we are going to take away the certification of election process from civil servants, secretary of states, people who are just counting ballots, partisan legislatures who may or may not decide a states electoral votes should go to one person or another. And when that’s all done against the backdrop of large numbers of Republicans having been convinced wrongly that there was something fishy about the last election, we’ve got a problem.”

He continued, “I thought that there were enough guardrails institutionally that even after Trump was elected that you would have the so-called Republican establishment who would say okay, you know, it’s a problem if the White House isn’t — doesn’t seem to be concerned about Russian meddling, or it’s a problem if we have a president who is saying neo-Nazis are marching in Charlottesville, there are good people on both sides.”

Obama added, “The degree to which we did not see that Republican establishment say hold on, time out, that’s not acceptable. That’s not who we are but rather be cowed into accepting and then finally culminating on January 6 where what originally was ‘Oh, don’t worry, this isn’t going in where. We’re just letting Trump and others vent.’, Then suddenly you now have large portions of an elected Congress going along with the falsehood.”

He concluded, “I didn’t expect that there would be so few people who say well, well I don’t mind losing my office because this is too important. America is too important.”

 

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REPORT: Ballots Will be Fully Counted in Arizona on June 14th - On Trump's Birthday and Flag Day | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

TGP reporter Jordan Condradson reported on Saturday night that the hand recount portion of the Arizona Audit is winding down.

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REPORT: Ballots Will be Fully Counted in Arizona on June 14th – On Trump’s Birthday and Flag Day

By Jim Hoft
Published June 7, 2021 at 1:26pm

TGP reporter Jordan Condradson reported on Saturday night that the hand recount portion of the Arizona Audit is winding down.

There are now only 7 untouched pallets of boxes remaining.

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Now this…

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Arizona Congressional candidate Josh Barnett posted this on Monday — the Maricopa County ballots will be finished being counted on June 14th.

Do you know what else happens on June 14th?

President Trump’s Birthday and our Flag Day!

Happy Birthday Mr. President.

And Flag Day is June 14th also!

Hat Tip Bill

So the ballots will be counted, theoretically proving the fraud in time for my wife’s birthday.
She will be so pleased!

 

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No, Donald Trump Does NOT have to Run for Congress to Become Speaker of the House

When Donald Trump did a radio interview with Wayne Allyn Root last week, the conservative host floated the idea that Trump could run for Congress in Florida and become Speaker of the House, to which the former president responded, “That’s so — that’s so interesting.” He went on to call it a good...

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No, Donald Trump Does NOT have to Run for Congress to Become Speaker of the House

There are a lot of scenarios being discussed about Donald Trump's 2022 plans. The best one is not being discussed by many. It should be.

by JD Rucker
June 7, 2021





When Donald Trump did a radio interview with Wayne Allyn Root last week, the conservative host floated the idea that Trump could run for Congress in Florida and become Speaker of the House, to which the former president responded, “That’s so — that’s so interesting.” He went on to call it a good idea.

It’s not a good idea for one big reason: It’s not necessary. He doesn’t have to run for Congress because he doesn’t have to be a member of the House of Representatives to become Speaker of the House. The Constitution is clear on the requirements and being part of the lower chamber isn’t one of them.

With a Republican majority in the House, they can vote to make United States private citizen Donald J. Trump the Speaker of the House. Few people seem to know this since the Speaker of the House has always been a member of the House of Representatives, but there’s no Constitutional requirement for him to be an active elected official. He simply needs to be elected by a majority of current members of the House of Representatives in order to become second in the line of succession to the presidency.

Instead of focusing on winning his own election, he needs to do a few things. First and foremost, he needs to speak to House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy and get his backing on the idea. He’ll tell McCarthy that he’ll help them win back a huge majority in the House, then will assume the role of Speaker for two years. Before the 2024 election, he will step down and allow McCarthy to be voted into the role.

Then, he has to meet with the GOP and their affiliated Congressional PACs to lay out the plan.

They will object, but with McCarthy’s backing they will not be able to object. Their caveat will be that Trump will have to back some of their RINO candidates, and other than Liz Cheney and Adam Kinzinger, Trump will probably agree.

Lastly, he needs to put his PAC and coveted endorsements towards making Congress red again.

They need to make it a national campaign with focus on winning the most contentious races. It needs to be positioned as a referendum against Nancy Pelosi, Joe Biden, and their failures in leadership of this nation. Even at this early stage of Democrat control in DC, there has been plenty of buyers’ remorse expressed by Democrats.

Donald Trump can be the next Speaker of the House without getting a single vote next year. With a Republican majority, the only votes he’ll need are from a majority of Representatives in January, 2023.

 

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The Time of Romney-Ryan Republicanism Is Over

Paul Ryan (I know, sorry for bringing him up) delivered a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library at the end of May in which he sought to reassert himself as a leader of the Republican Party. His shtick was the same spit wash that Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and George Bush have tried rubbing on...

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The Time of Romney-Ryan Republicanism Is Over
by J.B. Shurk
June 7, 2021



Paul Ryan (I know, sorry for bringing him up) delivered a speech at the Reagan Presidential Library at the end of May in which he sought to reassert himself as a leader of the Republican Party. His shtick was the same spit wash that Mitt Romney, Liz Cheney, and George Bush have tried rubbing on the Republican electorate time and again since Biden’s official installation.

We’re better than this reality TV outsider who hijacked the party. Boo to populism; yay to True Conservatism, Inc.! This is serious, people; we’re at a ‘crossroads’ here.

I’ll tell ya, he sold me. If we act now and hand the party back to the likes of Romney, Bill Kristol, Nicolle Wallace, Steve Schmidt, Michael Steele, and all those Lincoln Project pedophile-protectors, then True Conservatism can finally be conserved most conservatively. It will be awesome! All that is required is a recurring hundred-dollar monthly donation and an annual vacation booking on Cruise Ship Bloviate, where D.C. “Smart People” will deign to entertain the riffraff from flyover country with their vacuous circumlocution, haughty preening, and selling of indulgences to those poor pensioners willing to buy whatever new book some intern wrote for the grifters to hock.

Boy, just thinking about all those yahoos makes me that much more thankful that Donald Trump came around to expose the Republican Brahmin class for what it is. To be so off-putting yet so capable of putting on airs is a tremendous talent that distinguishes the serpent-tongued Republicans of D.C. from the unkempt and unworthy horde of voters who know only how “to say what they mean and mean what they say.” Honest plain speaking is for the rubes; real sophistication requires lying to voters every two years and then mocking them for their beliefs while wine-and-cheesin’ it up with Chuck Schumer’s friends on the cocktail circuit in Northwest D.C.

After all these years, Paul Ryan and his “Washington Generals” cohorts are still so blinded by their hatred for Donald Trump that they’d prefer the double-team of Mao’s Cultural Revolution and Stalin’s dissident purge (Where did everyone go? I don’t know; they just “disappeared.”)

presently napalming freedom in America to taking a hard look at why Republican voters abandoned them in the first place. Why not? Introspection is hard, but status quo ante is easy.

The “utopian” collectivism of Mao and Stalin killed only a hundred million people last century, but surely Donald Trump’s “Make America Great Again” patriotism is more evil than the Democratic Party’s resurrection of those mass murderers’ policies here in America. Let’s roll the dice, take back the Republican Party from the party-crasher, and see if we can compromise and find some sensible middle ground with those on the political left who have started to build guillotines for our executions on the public square right next to where the cicada-soy ice cream Antifa vendor set up shop. Deep down, we’re all Americans, right? Right?! What opiated denialism!

What was Paul Ryan’s biting critique of Donald Trump’s policies? He’s a dreaded “populist”!

Oh, no! He may have been one of the most conservative American presidents in U.S. history, but he tweets his thoughts contemporaneously and refuses to act “presidentially.” His behavior is coarse, appealing to coarse in kind, and all that was too much for one Christian to bear.

Forget about Trump’s substantive accomplishments; it’s his style over which we must obsess.

And in Paul Ryan’s Republican Party, style wins over substance every time.

While recognizing that Trump actually succeeded in expanding the party’s appeal to a diverse electorate (a truth that most every other NeverTrump has buried while ignoring that President Trump won more votes in 2020 than any sitting president in history — and nearly ten million more than Obama won in re-election), Ryan concludes that voters want Republican leaders who have “independence and mettle,” not mere “flatterers flocking to Mar-a-Lago.” That’s it, Ryan.

You got it! Republican voters who grew so disillusioned by decades of Establishment Republican betrayals that they opted to toss them all aside for a non-politician are now eager to reward true leadership and grit again by seeking a return to power of the same crippled conservatism and Republican gimpiness that led them to choose Donald Trump in the first place. What independent thinking! What brawny displays of virility and mettle! When we voted for Trump the outsider, what we actually wanted was a NeverTrump insider this whole time. Brilliant!

Deriding Trump as nothing more than a “populist” too lowly for the high principles of the Brahmins sort of reveals the whole D.C. aristocratic power palace for what it is — a hunting ground for “club members” only. Their spoils, their rules. If we were talking about democratic elections here, popularity might be kind of a nice arrow to have in the quiver. Can you win a national presidential election and not be popular with the people? Only if you’re Joe Biden and a “secret cabal of wealthy and politically connected elites” conspire “to manipulate the rules and laws of an election in order to win.” Otherwise, elections run on “popularity.”

When Ryan levels the “populist” label against Trump as a pejorative, he’s really crying that Donald Trump managed to succeed in 2016 (and 2020 — go ahead, Facebook, censor away) after being denied the blessings of the one percent of the one percent who hoard power in the United States and did so by loudly proclaiming his loathing and vitriol for all the corrupt Washington institutionalists who have sold out America for the last thirty years. Trump told the permanent oligarchy to shove it where the sun don’t shine, and the oligarchy said, Egads, this is a proper democracy. Who allowed the little people a say in our choice for president? Someone print some more money, mail out a “stimmy,” and tell the NASCAR crowd to shut up.

Is it any wonder after decades of being led by a bunch of mealy-mouthed Washington neoconservatives who go out of their way to demean regular, everyday Americans, Republican voters finally said enough? That we’ll go with the most outsidiest outsider we can find, the one who most successfully proves he hates all you people in D.C. and the crony culture you represent? And if he happens to actually want to make America great in the process, rather than China or corporate multinationals or all the foreign nationals illegally crossing the border, then hell, we’ll take a double-scoop of that, too?

Michael Moore predicted that a 2016 Trump victory would be the biggest middle finger “ever recorded in human history.” I don’t know about that, but I definitely think it was the biggest middle finger to the Washington ruling class since the real Washington was stacking up corpses of redcoats.

In reacting to Paul Ryan’s speech, an online commenter going by the name Zendor summed it up with a clever portmanteau: “The only leadership shown by Rinosaur Ryan is leading other rinos to extinction.” I think Zendor nails the truth, and I think Ryan is still missing how massive the Trump meteor has been. The time of Romney-Ryan Republicanism is over. The Trump Era has only just begun.

 

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Fight over discovery erupts in 2020 election fraud lawsuit in Michigan’s Antrim County - Washington Examiner

There is still life in a 2020 election fraud lawsuit in northern Michigan.Attorneys for Antrim County and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson are objecting to a proposed order from Matthew DePerno, the attorney for the plaintiff, filed after a judge rejected an effort last month to force...

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Fight over discovery erupts in 2020 election fraud lawsuit in Michigan's Antrim County

by Daniel Chaitin, Deputy News Editor |
| June 06, 2021 02:01 PM
| Updated Jun 06, 2021, 02:07 PM

There is still life in a 2020 election fraud lawsuit in northern Michigan.

Attorneys for Antrim County and Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson are objecting to a proposed order from Matthew DePerno, the attorney for the plaintiff, filed after a judge rejected an effort last month to force a new audit of the results.

In anticipation of an appeal, 13th Circuit Court Judge Kevin Elsenheimer said it was is his understanding that all other matters had been put on hold for the time being and noted the court "will take all pending motions under advisement."

The judge ordered DePerno to submit a proposed order on the stay, but what the attorney turned in "is not accurate," Michigan Assistant Attorney General Erik Grill contended in a brief, according to the Traverse City Record-Eagle.

“The Court had stated that 'all matters' would be stayed — including discovery. But the Plaintiff’s proposed order stays only unresolved motions and would not stay discovery or any other matters," he added.

A hearing for arguments is scheduled for July 12.

Elsenheimer's ruling effectively dismissing the case, one of the last 2020 election lawsuits left in the nation, followed his consideration of legal sufficiency issues raised by the defense, which argued the plaintiff, Central Lake Township resident Bill Bailey, lacked standing and the lawsuit was moot "because Plaintiff has already been granted all of the relief he sought."

DePerno and Bailey, who initially sued over a local marijuana retailer proposal, argued that “material fraud or error" took place in the 2020 election and most recently had been pressing for their own audit of the results. The defendants argued that such an audit had taken place, and the judge, who said Michigan law gives the secretary of state the right to perform audits, determined that the case was moot. "There is no reason to do it twice," he said.

But before his May 18 ruling, the judge already allowed DePerno to proceed with an "expert witness" list for testimony to rebut a report by a technology security expert released by the Michigan secretary of state's office that found issues with an analysis of Antrim County's Dominion Voting Systems machines that claimed to have found a 68% error rate and argued human error led to early tabulation errors. That aligns with what state and county officials said after it was revealed that early on, thousands of votes were incorrectly tabulated in favor of President Joe Biden in Antrim County, which has about 23,000 residents. The reporting error was quickly corrected, but the mishap caught the attention of former President Donald Trump and his allies, who claim the 2020 contest was rigged and are encouraging a push for audits to take place across the country.

Benson celebrated the judge's ruling in a statement that noted Elsenheimer is a former Republican state legislator.

"The dismissal of the last of the lawsuits attempting to undermine democracy in furtherance of the Big Lie affirms that despite intense scrutiny, and an unprecedented misinformation campaign, the 2020 election was fair and secure, and the results accurately reflect the will of the voters," she said.

However, the judge stressed his ruling was "not saying there there were no problems" in how Antrim County conducted the 2020 election.

"The clerk has admitted that there were challenges and problems in the elections, although the hand count ultimately of the presidential election showed the results were largely consistent with the canvas totals that were entered by the state and reported by the county. Nor am I saying that the processing of election data here wasn't corrupted or corruptible. I don't have the facts to make that determination," he added.

In a livestream with supporters after the hearing, Bailey said an appeal is "definitely" happening but noted "another option" was under consideration. He also said there is "incredible new evidence" of fraud and predicted the judge "will see it" at some point.

DePerno echoed that message in a press release posted to his website last week. "We have new and exciting evidence ready to be disclosed and will schedule its release as time permits," he said.

 

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Voter fraud data exposed & explained in detail! Doug's interveiw with former Army Captain of Military Intellegence, Seth Keshel 1:00:12 min



See also on Rumble The Right Side with Doug Billings - June 7, 2021

 

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Epshteyn: 25% of Ballot Boxes in Maricopa Do Not Match 10:06 minhttps://rumble.com/
Epshteyn: 25% of Ballot Boxes in Maricopa Do Not Match
Bannons War Room
Rumble — Boris Epshteyn gives an update on the ongoing audits within the US and their findings. June 7, 2021

 

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Ruby's videotaped deposition should be interesting.

I can't wait to see it on Youtube.

No wait...

It might be a long one.

Dobbin

 

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▲ An affidavit filed in connection with the case against Daniel Ray Caldwell, which cites a tweet by Chris Sigurdson.

Meanwhile, AntiFa who wore masks in true "Covirus Protection for Others" are not identified, or just plain "ignored" by the powers that be.

Even when acting as leaders with "BURN THIS THING DOWN" (obvious sign of intent) or "COME THIS WAY TO BREAK SOME THINGS" (more sign) And then pull back when the Ashli's of the riot display any initiative or motivation.

Heck. Many AntiFa were paid employees - in another realm they would be called "soldier of fortune."

Dobbin

 

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BREAKING GEORGIA UPDATE: Ruby Freeman who Jammed Suspect Ballots Into Voting Machines Multiple Times on Election Night Is Subpoenaed | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

Yesterday we reported that Shaye Moss was subpoenaed in Georgia for her activities in the 2020 election in Fulton County.

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BREAKING GEORGIA UPDATE: Ruby Freeman who Jammed Suspect Ballots Into Voting Machines Multiple Times on Election Night Is Subpoenaed

By Joe Hoft
Published June 7, 2021 at 9:43pm

Yesterday we reported that Shaye Moss was subpoenaed in Georgia for her activities in the 2020 election in Fulton County. Now it’s her mother’s turn, Ruby Freeman.

Over the weekend it was reported that Ruby Freeman’s daughter Shaye Moss, who was also Ruby’s boss during the election counting process in Fulton County, Georgia, was subpoenaed:


Shaye Moss was famous for kicking everyone out of the room where votes were counted in Fulton County and telling observers to go home. Then Shaye and others including Ralph Jones and her mother Ruby dragged hidden boxes of ballots out from underneath tables and started running them through the machines. Ruby Freeman was caught on tape running the same stack of suspect ballots through the machines multiple times:



Now tonight it’s mama’s turn.

Ruby Freeman was subpoenaed and was served as is noted in the below tweet.



Like daughter, like mama. This story is not over yet!

 

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EVERY STATE Should Be Audited - Now a Concerned Citizen in Massachusetts Uncovers Election Discrepancies | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

The 2020 Election results in every state should be forensically audited using the same method that is taking place in Arizona now.

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EVERY STATE Should Be Audited – Now a Concerned Citizen in Massachusetts Uncovers Election Discrepancies

By Joe Hoft
Published June 8, 2021 at 7:00am

The 2020 Election results in every state should be forensically audited using the same method that is taking place in Arizona now.

We’ve reported on concerns with the results of elections in Massachusetts previously. This is how we discovered MIT Ph.D. Dr. Shiva who had uncovered an anomaly in the election results in the Senate primary in Massachusetts. He identified a pattern in the results in his 2020 primary and he saw the same anomaly in the 2020 Presidential results in Michigan:


We already knew that the results of the 2020 Senate primary were suspect so when a concerned citizen in Massachusetts reached out to us with his story, we listened.

Our reader shared that at the beginning of December 2020, and initially with a request made verbally and in person, he asked the Marshfield Town Clerk, for elections reports for the 2020 local election and the November 3rd national election. He mentioned that he wanted the reports because he was intending to run for local office in 2021.

At first, he was given copies of files that were loaded onto memory sticks or thumb drives in what appears to be an Excel-like format. But, these files were incomplete. For example, the local election had 1,400+ voters but the report had only about 1,100 voters listed.

Similarly, the November election had 16,000+ voters but he received a report indicating less than 13,000 voters participated.

Then, after more requests – and no response – our reader made a call to the Secretary’s Elections Division and described the situation. Within hours of that call, I received an email with several pdf files attached that are lists of names of persons that voted (although in some instances it is not clear if these are persons that actually voted). These pdf files appeared to be grouped into six (6) precincts – but his town has seven (7) precincts. One precinct, Precinct 5, was not included.

Our reader received the following letter from the state to the local town representative encouraging the town to obtain all the information and provided it to the requestor. (This has not yet been done.)

Email:
June 3 email to SoS Records… by Jim Hoft (Scribd doc. on website)


The requestor believes that he will no receive a clean report from the Town clerk. However, if this is the case, then this against the Public Records law.

The Commonwealth of Massachusetts reached out to the clerk and encouraged her to provide adequate records to our reader. But it appears no one is interested in maintaining the law in this situation.

(Scribd doc on website)

What the reader did find out in other research is that the firm that ‘manages’ the local town’s election records and machines is LHS and their representative is Lynn Haas.

We’ve recently reported that a significant percentage of the voting machines in the New England states are handled by LHS:


This firm was right in the middle of the Windham, New Hampshire audit as well:


What do you want to bet that there are other precincts and localities in New England that have issues with their 2020 Election results as well?

 

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AZ Audit CONTINUES - Another Graveyard Shift And A NEW LOOK! - Officials from Georgia Tour TODAY | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

The world’s first-ever full forensic audit of a Presidential Election continued Monday night for another 8 PM – 1 AM counting shift.

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AZ Audit CONTINUES – Another Graveyard Shift And A NEW LOOK! – Officials from Georgia Tour TODAY

By Jordan Conradson
Published June 8, 2021 at 7:34am

The world’s first-ever full forensic audit of a Presidential Election continued Monday night for another 8 PM – 1 AM counting shift.

The staff is transforming the counting floor into a forensics floor as the hand count reaches completion, and the high number of counting tables is obsolete.

On Monday afternoon, Senate liasion Ken Bennett told The Gateway Pundit that the audit team would be about 80% completed with counting by the end of the day. At 12:10 AM on Tuesday, The number of untouched pallets remaining was only five.


The AZ audit team is maxing out capacity on forensic tables in order to finish that process and deliver a final report ASAP. Within the coming weeks, we will finally know the answer on whether or not this was a fraudulent election.

Other states with irregularities pointing to fraud, similar to those seen in Arizona, are expected to come to Arizona for a full walkthrough of the process. As TGP reported earlier, a team from the state of Georgia will be on the floor later today to evaluate implementing a full forensic audit at home in GA.

On Monday morning, reporter Christina Bobb told OAN that a HANDFUL of states may be coming out to Arizona for a tour of the first full forensic audit in history, starting with Georgia TODAY.


TGP’s Jordan Conradson will be on the scene to provide coverage of this vital moment in Georgia’s election audit.

As the audit in Arizona was winding down for the night, just after midnight, forensic tables on one side were filled with staff and they were down to only FIVE MORE untouched pallets to count. Even more, additional forensic tables continue to be propped up and will continue to be staffed.

Yesterday was another successful day of auditing the 2020 election and it will continue today at 8 AM with a special appearance from another key state in this questionable election.

The One America News Network audit live stream, below, is running 24/7.


If the Dems and MCBOS are SO concerned about security and transparency, why don’t they encourage voters to act as citizen overwatch on this live stream?
Maybe because they would see how secure and transparent this process really is?

 

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UPDATE: Accurate List of 2020 Election Fraud Cases Shows 87 Total Cases - Trump and/or GOP Won 71% of Cases Where Merits Were Heard | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

The 2020 election will go down as arguably the greatest fraud in world history. The tremendously popular incumbent candidate, President Trump, was easily winning the race on election night in a landslide and then suddenly multiple states took a break, quit counting, and by the end of the week...

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UPDATE: Accurate List of 2020 Election Fraud Cases Shows 87 Total Cases – Trump and/or GOP Won 71% of Cases Where Merits Were Heard

By Joe Hoft
Published June 8, 2021 at 8:55am

The 2020 election will go down as arguably the greatest fraud in world history. The tremendously popular incumbent candidate, President Trump, was easily winning the race on election night in a landslide and then suddenly multiple states took a break, quit counting, and by the end of the week the election was flipped to Joe Biden.

Then, as the President and his team attempted to address the fraud and alleged abnormalities, the courts refused to hear many of the important cases that impacted the nation and the world.

We’ve heard over and over from Big Media that President Trump and his team lost numerous court cases linked to the 2020 election. But this is not accurate.

• There are 87 court cases to date based on the 2020 election
• In 26 cases President Trump was the plaintiff
• In 56 cases President Trump was not the plaintiff
• In 5 cases President Trump is the defendant
• In 24 cases the case was decided on the merits
• In 17 of the 24 cases (71%) decided on the merits President Trump and/or the GOP prevailed
• 12 cases remain active

Here is a link to the list of cases. Notice this file is updated on an ad hoc basis so numbers are subject to updates.

In the 2020 election:

• Thousands of instances of fraud were observed and/or alleged
• Multiple states changed laws to provide for absentee ballots and the manner changes were made is alleged to be illegitimate
• The FBI to date has done nothing to review the alleged fraud
• The DOJ denied any alleged material instances of fraud
• The Democrats are accused of the alleged election fraud
• The state legislatures certified their results with millions of ballots in question
• The US Congress accepted these certified results which ignored the thousands of instances of election fraud
• VP Mike Pence accepted the results despite state legislatures asking him to examine the results

And now we know President Trump and/or the GOP won 71% of the cases where merits were heard.

Americans are livid with the actions that took place in the 2020 election and believe the election was stolen. There are numerous reasons for this.

 

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Steve Bannon: President Trump Should be Voted in as Next Speaker of the House and Should Immediately Move to Impeach Joe Biden (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Former Trump Chief Strategist Steve Bannon invited Rep.

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Steve Bannon: President Trump Should be Voted in as Next Speaker of the House and Should Immediately Move to Impeach Joe Biden (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published June 8, 2021 at 10:03am

Former Trump Chief Strategist Steve Bannon invited Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) onto The War Room on Tuesday.

During their discussion, Bannon told MTG that President Trump should not run for Congress but should be elected the next Speaker of the House in 2022.

Steve Bannon: Our concept is that we’re going to have a sweeping victory, you can already see the momentum building in 2022. And our theory of the case is Donald Trump does not need to run for Congress and should not run for Congress as an individual congressman. That’s ridiculous. What Donald Trump should do is after we win a sweeping victory, the House members should vote him as Speaker of the House, at least for some interim period of time.

Not Kevin McCarthy, Donald Trump. Where Donald Trump takes the gavel from Nancy Pelosi and he immediately move to impeach Joe Biden.

Via The War Room:
Rumble video on website 1:28 min

 

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Georgia Update: Attorneys back in Court on June 21 After Fulton County Officials Block Audit of Ballots -- Attorney Requests Video Footage from Unsecured Building | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

What are Democrats so worried about?

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Georgia Update: Attorneys back in Court on June 21 After Fulton County Officials Block Audit of Ballots — Attorney Requests Video Footage from Unsecured Building

By Jim Hoft
Published June 8, 2021 at 11:57am

What are Democrats so worried about?

As TGP reported back in May — Lawyers for the Fulton County Georgia Board of Registration and Elections filed an official request to the court to dismiss the election fraud case brought by Garland Favorito and others before the forensic audit was launched on May 28th.

This was after Judge Brian Amero from Henry County in Georgia ruled the week before that the audit in Fulton County, Georgia, must proceed. This came after a video report by The Gateway Pundit back in early December revealed the same batch of ballots were being counted two and three times on election night after observers were told to leave the facility.



The judge ordered the parties to appear at the Fulton County ballot storage location at 10 AM on May 28th, which was the Friday before the Memorial Day Weekend.

But then Georgia Judge Brian Amero announced on that Thursday that the Friday meeting would no longer take place due to the motions filed by Fulton County officials to suspend the forensic analysis.

It now appears the Fulton County officials successfully delayed action until sometime in July. The parties will appear in court again on June 21.

And attorney Favorito is requesting security video from when the building was left open on Saturday May 29th.

Via The Epoch Times:

“We have confirmed that there are five pallets of shrink-wrapped ballots in a county warehouse,” Favorito said in an interview with RealClearInvestigations.

He and other petitioners were ordered to meet at the warehouse May 28 to settle the terms of the inspection of the absentee ballots. But the day before the scheduled meeting, the county filed a flurry of motions to dismiss the case, delaying the inspection indefinitely.

“We will be in court on June 21 to resolve these motions,” said Favorito, calling them another “roadblock” the county has tried to throw in their way. He expects talks over the logistics of the inspection to resume after the Fourth of July holiday.

As part of his May 21 order, Superior Court Judge Brian Amero requested officials guard the warehouse around the clock until an inspection date can be set. But just eight days later, a breach in security was reported after sheriff’s deputies left their post for a couple of hours.

“The front door was [found] unlocked and wide open in violation of the court order,” Favorito said.

County officials confirmed that a motion-detection alarm was triggered Saturday, May 29, shortly after the deputies drove away from the building in their patrol cars around 4 p.m. But they said a locked room where the ballots are kept “was never breached or compromised.”

Favorito is not convinced, and his lawyer is seeking to obtain the video footage from building security cameras. “How do we know for certain there was no tampering with the ballots?” asked Favorito, who said he did not vote for Trump.

 

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EVERY STATE Should Be Audited - North Carolina Results Don't Make Sense - Appear Likely Impossible | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

Early in the morning on November 4th, 2020, one day after the election, it looked like President Trump was the winner in North Carolina. Today a reader shared with The Gateway Pundit unlikely results once the ballots were finally counted and certified.

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EVERY STATE Should Be Audited – North Carolina Results Don’t Make Sense – Appear Likely Impossible

By Joe Hoft
Published June 8, 2021 at 1:15pm

Early in the morning on November 4th, 2020, one day after the election, it looked like President Trump was the winner in North Carolina. Today a reader shared with The Gateway Pundit unlikely results once the ballots were finally counted and certified.

In September 2020 North Carolina joined Michigan and Pennsylvania in allowing voting to continue for up to 9 days after the election. We knew then that this state was in jeopardy of being stolen in the 2020 Election.



On election day we reported that voting hours were extended in North Carolina at four voting sites due to voting machine errors at those locations. (At this point in time we had no idea who the voting machine companies were around the country or their importance.)



Then on Election night North Carolina reported 100% of the precincts were reported but then later the state claimed only 94% were complete.



Next, we learned that the North Carolina Board of Elections voted to allow individuals to fix ballots after the election.



The results in the state were eventually called for President Trump more than a week after the election. However, one observer noted some unreasonable events in the state’s final results and he shared this with TGP:

I guarantee there was massive fraud here in North Carolina. I have lived in Orange County (heavily Democrat, especially with the University of North Carolina and Duke University in the south part of the county) for a decade. There is NO WAY that North Carolina went for President Trump and at the same time Democrat Roy Cooper got re-elected as well.


How in the immortal hell does a state go for Trump (Republican), elect Mark Robinson (black Republican) but, re-elects a piece of trash Democrat like Cooper? That doesn’t happen without fraud. North Carolina went for Trump in 2016 and Romney in 2012.

Scroll over the voting percentages per county at link here:
Orange County was 75% for Biden?
Durham County was 80% for Biden?
Look at the rest of the state. No other county got above 67%, not even huge Charlotte or Wake County.
The state went for Senator Tillis (Republican).
Orange County was 77% for Cooper?
Durham County was 82% for Cooper?

None of the other counties got above 69% but, these two were higher than Charlotte or Wake County? Even the Tillis/Cunningham race is suspicious. The house races for Districts 6, 4 & 2 are questionable. The percentages are way off.

Most of NC is RED. But, tip the scales, illegally, in two relatively small counties…
You should notice that, the counties with the most whacked percentages are all University counties.

I’m also attaching a couple of shots I grabbed of the parking lot of the Board of Elections, here in Hillsborough.

Never in the decade I’ve been here have I seen U-Haul trucks, all over the place, two days before the elections. I guarantee these trucks were FULL of fake ballots.

NC’s voting machines need to be cracked open and, Orange and Durham Counties need an Arizona-style audit.

This reader has a point. The numbers don’t make sense. In addition, the fact that both Duke and UNC were holding remote classes for their students makes it questionable why these two counties would be so far left in their final results.

Recently North Carolina Representatives demanded an audit of the voting machines in the state. This is a good first step but will likely never uncover fraud. The machines probably already have been wiped clean of the 2020 election results or the local election boards will prevent providing the machines. But the real problem with just looking at machines is it’s impossible to determine exactly which ballots were fraudulent if any.



In order to determine the real results of the election the machines should be reviewed by experts but the ballots are where you will find any issues you can present in court. The best example to date is the audit going on in Arizona for the Senate there. This audit is looking at each ballot to determine if it is legitimate or not. This can be determined by reviewing the folds, paper type, ink, and format of ballots. This is what those who cheated in the election are afraid of.

People in North Carolina should demand a forensic audit based on the audit in Maricopa County performed for the AZ Senate right now. There is enough evidence to demand this.

 

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DC Mayor Is Unwilling To Answer Congressional Letter on Prison Conditions for Jan. 6 Protesters Held Illegally by their Country | The Gateway Pundit | by Kari Donovan

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DC Mayor Is Unwilling To Answer Congressional Letter on Prison Conditions for Jan. 6 Protesters Held Illegally by their Country

By Kari Donovan
Published June 8, 2021 at 2:15pm

The U.S. House Oversight is threatening to investigate the condition of prisons in D.C. where prisoners, including those held since January 6 for Capitol Hill offenses, are being held in solitary confinement, claiming Bowser is not ready for DC Statehood until she complies with their requests.

U.S. Rep. James Comer (R-KY), the Republican leader of the U.S. House Oversight Committee, sent Washington DC Mayor Muriel Bowser a letter in April, requesting information about Bowser’s established draconian conditions in D.C. jails keeping prisoners under her jurisdiction in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day. Further, Bowser’s refusal to answer to the U.S. House impacts her pursuit of Statehood for D.C. According to one local activist who has studied the situation, she has even made the situation worse because of the investigation.

Suzanne Monk, the founder of ReOpen America Pac, told The Gateway Pundit:

Remember this is anyone in D.C. who is awaiting trial, which includes people who are there as a result of January 6, who are still awaiting trial and are being held in solitary confinement for up to 23 hours a day. After Rep. Comer sent his letter, Bowser made the situation worse by claiming that anyone who had gotten vaccinated could have a break in solitary. So that makes it worse for those people in there. We are watching this situation and will update you.

According to the letter from Comer, Bowser can expect to be investigated by Congress for her actions, even if she chooses to continue to ignore their inquiries.

According to Comer’s letter, if Bowser wants statehood, she needs to be ready to take federal prisons, and that means she needs to have her prisons evaluated. Referencing a recent article in the Washington Post, he said:

D.C.’s house is not in order, and the solution is not to grant it even more authority through statehood. It is this Committee’s responsibility and obligation to exercise proper oversight of the District, its infrastructure, finances, and citizens, including those who may be incarcerated.

Please coordinate with the staff of the Committee on Oversight and Reform to arrange a briefing to answer questions regarding this disturbing treatment of D.C.’s incarcerated population.

In addition, please provide a response to my letter of April 6, 2021, which asked you a series of
straightforward questions regarding D.C. statehood and the intent to levy a commuter tax against neighboring jurisdictions, which has gone unanswered by your office.

The Committee on Oversight and Reform is the principal oversight committee of the U.S. House

of Representatives and has broad authority to investigate “any matter” at “any time” under House Rule X. Thank you in advance for your cooperation with this inquiry.

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The U.S. House Minority Office confirmed to The Gateway Pundit that there had been no response to Comer’s letter.

This should nix the leftist fantasy that Washington DC deserves to be a state — which is also unconstitutional.

 

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HUGE DEVELOPMENT: THREE DIFFERENT STATES Tour the Arizona Audit Floor- MORE Are Expected EVERY DAY THIS WEEK! (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

This is a HUGE development!

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HUGE DEVELOPMENT: THREE DIFFERENT STATES Tour the Arizona Audit Floor- MORE Are Expected EVERY DAY THIS WEEK! (VIDEO)

By Jordan Conradson
Published June 8, 2021 at 3:11pm

This is a HUGE development!

Three different states toured the Arizona Audit floor on Tuesday afternoon.

Representatives from Georgia, Alaska and Colorado toured the facility!


On Tuesday Morning, OAN’s Christina Bobb reported that delegations from Georgia, Alaska, and Colorado are inside of the Veterans Memorial Coliseum for a tour of the historic Arizona audit process.

They are now on the floor for a deep dive into this process and it’s logistics.

The Gateway Pundit reported Monday that Georgia would tour the Veterans Memorial Coliseum as more states were expected to follow.



More states did follow as we have two surprise guests, Colorado and Alaska.

Legislators from these three states received a “classroom style” briefing, and are now on the floor to see firsthand, how this process is run.

These lawmakers are analyzing the audit to make any fixes necessary and implement a similar process at home.

TGP’s Jordan Conradson spoke with Senate Liasion Ken Bennett for another update before the guests arrived on the floor.

Jordan Conradson: I understand Georgia is in the house right now?

Ken Bennett: There’s a couple of legislators from Georgia and one from Alaska that are in the building right now. I’ve heard Virginia, I’ve heard Wisconsin, you’ve now told me, Colorado, Nevada was in a few days ago, Pennsylvania last week. It’s becoming a popular place.

Conradson: Are you expecting to have, over the next few days, more tours?

Bennett: I’m told that every day this week there is some elected official coming in from some state. Today is Tuesday and if that pattern continues well have somebody in Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday.

Conradson: It looks like they’re starting to max out on forensic tables, correct?

Bennett: We are beyond 80% I’m told, as far as counting the ballots, which is the first step. Then, it goes to the paper evaluation and they are well behind the counting levels in paper evaluation. I’m told that we’ll probably be finished with the counting of the ballots by the end of this week or sooner, and then all of the resources will shift to the paper evaluation. You can already see that paper evaluation has been increased significantly. There’s now 32 working tables and another probably 16 positions on the floor awaiting equipment and things like that. Once the counting is over this week at some time, all resources will shift to the paper evaluation.

As the Audit finishes, more states are coming to AZ in order to witness this process and take it home. The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson will be at the audit every day to provide updates on this strikingly important process.

 

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Why a Judge Has Georgia Vote Fraud on His Mind: ‘Pristine’ Biden Ballots That Looked Xeroxed

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Why a Judge Has Georgia Vote Fraud on His Mind: ‘Pristine’ Biden Ballots That Looked Xeroxed
June 8, 2021 10:09, Last Updated: June 8, 2021 10:14
By RealClearInvestigations

When Fulton County, Georgia, poll manager Suzi Voyles sorted through a large stack of mail-in ballots last November, she noticed an alarmingly odd pattern of uniformity in the markings for Joseph R. Biden. One after another, the absentee votes contained perfectly filled-in ovals for Biden—except that each of the darkened bubbles featured an identical white void inside them in the shape of a tiny crescent, indicating they’d been marked with toner ink instead of a pen or pencil.

Adding to suspicions, she noticed that all of the ballots were printed on different stock paper than the others she handled as part of a statewide hand recount of the razor-thin Nov. 3 presidential election. And none was folded or creased, as she typically observed in mail-in ballots that had been removed from envelopes.

In short, the Biden votes looked like they’d been duplicated by a copying machine.

“All of them were strangely pristine,” said Voyles, who said she’d never seen anything like it in her 20 years monitoring elections in Fulton County, which includes much of Atlanta.

She wasn’t alone. At least three other poll workers observed the same thing in stacks of absentee ballots for Biden processed by the county, and they have joined Voyles in swearing under penalty of perjury that they looked fake.

Now election watchdogs have used their affidavits to help convince a state judge to unseal all of the 147,000 mail-in ballots counted in Fulton and allow a closer inspection of the suspicious Biden ballots for evidence of counterfeiting. They argue that potentially tens of thousands may have been manufactured in a race that Biden won by just 12,000 votes thanks to a late surge of mail-in ballots counted after election monitors were shooed from State Farm Arena in Atlanta.

“We have what is almost surely major absentee-ballot fraud in Fulton County involving 10,000 to 20,000 probably false ballots,” said Garland Favorito, the lead petitioner in the case and a certified poll watcher who runs VoterGa.org, one of the leading advocates for election integrity in the state.

He said the suspect ballots remain in the custody of the election officials and inaccessible from public view.

“We have confirmed that there are five pallets of shrink-wrapped ballots in a county warehouse,” Favorito said in an interview with RealClearInvestigations.

He and other petitioners were ordered to meet at the warehouse May 28 to settle the terms of the inspection of the absentee ballots. But the day before the scheduled meeting, the county filed a flurry of motions to dismiss the case, delaying the inspection indefinitely.

“We will be in court on June 21 to resolve these motions,” said Favorito, calling them another “roadblock” the county has tried to throw in their way. He expects talks over the logistics of the inspection to resume after the Fourth of July holiday.



Fulton county workers continue to count absentee ballots at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Ga., on Nov. 6, 2020. (Jessica McGowan/Getty Images)

As part of his May 21 order, Superior Court Judge Brian Amero requested officials guard the warehouse around the clock until an inspection date can be set. But just eight days later, a breach in security was reported after sheriff’s deputies left their post for a couple of hours.

“The front door was [found] unlocked and wide open in violation of the court order,” Favorito said.

County officials confirmed that a motion-detection alarm was triggered Saturday, May 29, shortly after the deputies drove away from the building in their patrol cars around 4 p.m. But they said a locked room where the ballots are kept “was never breached or compromised.”

Favorito is not convinced, and his lawyer is seeking to obtain the video footage from building security cameras. “How do we know for certain there was no tampering with the ballots?” asked Favorito, who said he did not vote for Trump.

News of the security lapse caught the attention of former President Donald Trump, who has claimed his loss to Biden was marred by fraud. In a statement, he implied election officials in the Democratic-controlled county are trying to hide evidence of fraud. “They are afraid of what might be found,” he asserted.

Trump is also closely monitoring the ongoing election audit in Arizona, another red state that turned blue in 2020. If evidence of fraud is found in these key swing states, it might help confirm suspicions the election was “stolen” from Trump and the 74 million who voted for him—as a recent poll found 61 percent of Republicans believe—as well as provide the proof of voter fraud that Democrats and major media have long claimed doesn’t exist.

The cases could potentially give other battleground states incentive to take steps to tighten election security and root out fraud, including passing legislation to limit the use of controversial mail-in drop boxes and require the verification of signatures on such ballots. In Georgia, relatively few mail-in ballots were rejected for invalid signatures in the November general election, even though several thousand had been disqualified for signature issues in the primary election.

In a move that inspired national boycotts alleging voter “suppression,” Georgia recently passed a law limiting, but not removing, the drop boxes. The state had installed them for the first time in 2020 under pressure from Democratic groups, who argued officials needed to make voting easier for minorities who didn’t trust the mail and feared going to the polls during the COVID scare.

The 38 drop boxes Fulton distributed throughout the county in the November election will be cut to eight in the future. The boxes had been largely unregulated and unattended—located outdoors, open 24 hours a day and available for drop-offs until the evening of Election Day, prompting complaints of ballot stuffing and double voting. But now they have to be located inside election offices or early voting locations, and can only be available during the hours when early voting is permitted. The new law also requires ballots be printed on special security paper.

Voting by mail traditionally was limited to voters who had clearly defined and well-documented reasons to be absent from the polls. But Democrats in key swing states lobbied to relax the rules in the middle of the election and amid the coronavirus pandemic.

A ballot is dropped off at an official ballot drop box in Monterey Park, Calif., on Oct. 5, 2020. (Frederic J. Brown/AFP via Getty Images)

Mail-in or drop-off ballots create opportunities for voter error and fraud. In a typical election, one in 20 mailed ballots are rejected, according to recent studies. More than 534,000 mail-in ballots were rejected during the 2020 Democratic primaries alone.

Still, both Republican and Democratic officials in Georgia say they have found no credible evidence of widespread fraud in the general election. Democrats, as well as many major media outlets, have written off Favorito’s group’s allegations of fraud as “conspiracy theories.”

“This is nothing more than a circus that’s being put on by those who promote the ‘big lie’” that Trump won the election, said Robb Pitts, the Democratic chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners. “Where does it end? The votes have been counted. The elections have been certified. It’s over.”

Pitts effectively controls the county elections board through his Democratic appointee Mary Carole Cooney, who runs the board. They are in charge of securing the pallets of disputed Biden mail-in ballots awaiting inspection in the county warehouse.

But Judge Amero, who federal elections records show is a Democratic donor, felt compelled to unseal the ballots for a forensics review after reading the sworn affidavits submitted by election monitors. Here are key witnesses in the case:

• Suzi Voyles, a veteran Fulton poll manager who audited the Nov. 14 recount at Georgia World Congress Center, testified she examined several stacks of ballots of about 100 ballots each from a cardboard box marked “Box No. 5—Absentee—Batch Numbers 28-36.” She said these ballots “came from the ballot [drop] boxes that had been placed throughout Fulton County.”

“Most of the ballots had already been handled; they had been written on by people, and the edges were worn. They showed obvious use,” she wrote in her Nov. 17 affidavit. “However, one batch stood out. It was pristine. There was a difference in the texture of the paper,” and these mail-in ballots hadn’t been folded even though they ostensibly had been removed from envelopes.

All but three of the 110 ballots in the bundle—which had been labeled “State Farm Arena”—were marked for Biden and appeared to be “identical ballots.”

The most “alarming peculiarity” was the identically marked ovals next to Biden’s name. In every ballot, “The bubble next to ‘Joseph R. Biden’ had a slight white eclipse in the bubble,” she said, leading her to believe that the batch of 107 Biden ballots had been “copied” from a single ballot.

Voyles speculated that “additional absentee ballots had been added [for Biden] in a fraudulent manner” at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta on election night.

Filing boxes sit off to the side at an absentee ballot processing room at State Farm Arena in Atlanta, Ga., on Nov. 2, 2020. (Megan Varner/Getty Images)

The void she and other auditors witnessed in the exact same spot of the oval filled in on 107 ballots for Biden “was alarming to us,” Voyles said in an RCI interview. “Every single bubble was precisely alike. I had never seen that before in 20 years” of election monitoring.

But when she and other recount workers raised concerns with county election officials, “we were told not to worry about it,” she said. “They seemed uninterested in the [integrity of the] ballots.”

After Voyles later blew the whistle in affidavits and state election hearings, she was fired as a poll manager by the Fulton County Department of Elections. “I got the boot for speaking the truth,” she told RCI.

• Robin Hall, a certified Fulton County recount observer, also testified she witnessed a number of boxes of absentee ballots marked “100 percent for Biden” that appeared to be “perfectly filled out as if they were pre-printed with the presidential candidate selected.” She stated: “They did not look like a person had filled this out at home. All of them looked alike.”
• Judy Aube also worked at the World Congress Center on Nov. 14 where she observed the same thing: “suspicious batches” of mail-in ballots for Biden whose markings appeared identical, as if they had been duplicated by a machine and not filled out by a voter at home.
• Barbara Hartman, another election official auditor, also doubted the authenticity of absentee ballots she handled that she said were never folded, as would normally be the case for ballots returned in an envelope by mail or dropped in a box. “The absentee ballots looked as though they had just come from a fresh stack,” she swore in her affidavit. “I could not observe any creases in the ballots and [it] did not seem like they were folded and put into envelopes or mailed out.” Also, “The majority of the mail-in ballots that I reviewed contained suspicious black perfectly bubbled markings for Biden,” Hartman stated, adding that “they looked as if they were stamped.”

The veteran poll watchers found no plausible explanation for the anomalies other than possible fraud.

However, election officials have offered an explanation for why the mail-in ballots examined in the stacks did not have folds or creases. They say ballots are sometimes copied onto other paper when they are too damaged to be fed through one of the scanning machines during tabulation. The mailed ballots can be torn or crumpled by postal workers during delivery or by poll workers while opening them and removing them from envelopes, which could prevent the machines from reading them.

But Favorito suspects the hundreds, if not thousands, of allegedly duplicate absentee ballots for Biden might be connected to spikes in votes for Biden he observed late on election night in Fulton County after election officials cleared monitors from State Farm Arena and pulled cases full of ballots out from under tables and began scanning them.

“There’s always the chance it was an inside job,” said Favorito, a career IT professional who’s been a leading advocate for Georgia election integrity over the past two decades.

On Nov. 3, Fulton County elections officials informed monitors that they were shutting down the State Farm tabulation center before midnight, only to continue counting throughout the night while no one was watching.

Employees of the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections process ballots in Atlanta, Ga., on Nov. 4, 2020. (Brandon Bell/Reuters)

“Election workers don’t bring ballots in after the supervisor has delayed processing until the morning, hide them under a table, and then bring them out for scanning and tabulation after the supervisor tells [monitors] they are done scanning for the evening and they go home,” Favorito said.

“Once scanning [was] completed, an election line feed showed an unprecedented vote spike that turned the election in favor of Biden,” he added. In fact, “just over a half hour after workers scanned the potentially fraudulent ballots, an election line feed showed a 100,000-plus vote spike for Biden.”

“Where did those ballots come from and why did they handle them so suspiciously?” Favorito asked.

Voyles noted that the county elections supervisor who oversaw the secret scanning of the cases full of ballots also helps run the warehouse where the suspect ballots are being stored.
Phone calls and emails to Fulton County went unanswered.

Similar Anomalies, Other Counties

Favorito pointed out that the potential for counterfeit ballots exists in other Georgia counties, not just Fulton.

In fact, two Democrat poll workers blew the whistle on similar anomalies they witnessed in neighboring DeKalb and Cobb counties, where the election process also is controlled by Democrats.

Carlos E. Silva, for one, declared in a Nov. 17 affidavit that he observed a similar “perfect black bubble” in absentee ballots for Biden during the recount he worked in DeKalb County. And while overseeing the Cobb County recount, he swore he “observed absentee ballots being reviewed with the same perfect bubble that I had seen the night before in DeKalb. All of these ballots had the same characteristics: they were all for Biden and had the same perfect bubble.”

Added Silva, a registered Democrat, “There were thousands of [mail-in] ballots that just had the perfect bubble marked for Biden and no other markings in the rest of the ballot.”

Another registered Democrat, Mayra Romera, testified that while monitoring the Cobb County recount, she noticed that “hundreds of these ballots seemed impeccable, with no folds or creases. The bubble selections were perfectly made … and all happened to be selections for Biden.”

In a recent article pooh-poohing complaints of fraud in Georgia, as well as Arizona, The New York Times portrayed Favorito as “a known conspiracy theorist” and suggested he was a 9/11 truther. As evidence, it cited a 2002 book he published “questioning the origin of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”

Asked about it, Favorito responded: “My book did not propose any theories on what happened on 9/11. I don’t mention anything about explosives” planted in the World Trade Center, as truthers have speculated. Rather, he said, he questioned Bush family business connections with the bin Laden family and other wealthy Saudis, and argued that the war on terror benefited the Bushes. He also faulted the Bush administration for “obstructing” FBI investigations into the attacks.

Favorito says he is a “constitutionalist” and neither a Republican nor a Trump supporter.
This article was written by Paul Sperry for RealClearInvestigations

 

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Drew Hernandez Says Potential Election Audit Coming to Nevada

Investigative reporter Drew Hernandez reveals an election audit could soon be coming to Nevada.

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Drew Hernandez Says Potential Election Audit Coming to Nevada
Bannons War Room Published June 8, 2021
Rumble — Investigative reporter Drew Hernandez reveals an election audit could soon be coming to Nevada.

 

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Lindell v. Dominion/Smartmatic: Exhibits Breakdown Part 1

Lindell v. U.S. Dominion Inc., et al. has 17 exhibits. Exhibits are trial evidence and are subject to objections made by ...

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Lindell v. Dominion/Smartmatic: Exhibits Breakdown Part 1
By
John B. Nevin
-June 7, 2021

Lindell v. U.S. Dominion Inc., et al. has 17 exhibits. Exhibits are trial evidence and are subject to objections made by opposing attorneys. These exhibits are provided to support the allegations of wrongdoing made by the plaintiff, Mike Lindell, against the defendant, in this case, Dominion Voting Systems, et al.

See our previous article of Patrick Byrne‘s announcement of the availability of these documents and Lindell’s recent video release Absolutely 9-0.

Exhibit 1: Johns Hopkins University Technical Report on Diebold AccuVote-TS
Exhibit 1 originally appeared as Johns Hopkins University Information Security Institute Technical Report TR-2003-19 in July 2003. It later was published in the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) Symposium on Security and Privacy Computer Society Press in May 2004. It is titled “Analysis of an Electronic Voting System” and is co-authored by Tadayoshi Kohno, Adam Stubblefield, Aviel D. Rubin, and Dan S. Wallach.

It is a security analysis of the source code of the Diebold AccuVote-TS. The authors’ abstract reads:

“Our analysis shows that this voting system is far below even the most minimal security standards applicable in other contexts.”

It goes on to say several problems are identified, including network vulnerability, incorrect use of cryptography, and inelegant design.

“We show that voters, without any insider privileges, can cast unlimited votes without being detected… that said, we demonstrate that the insider threat is also quite considerable… not only can an insider, such as a poll worker, modify the votes, but [also] violate voter privacy… We conclude that this voting system is unsuitable for use in a general election.”

Beyond conclusions for this particular Diebold electronic elections system, the report notes that “Any paperless electronic voting system might suffer similar flaws, despite any ‘certification’ it could have otherwise received.” The technical report suggests a “voter-verifiable audit trail” that would print a physical ballot the voter could verify for a solution to these known vulnerabilities.

Image Diebold AccuVote Motherboard

Diebold acquired a Texas technology company, branded it Diebold Election Systems in 2002, and sold it to Election Systems & Software (ES&S) in 2009. According to a letter from a NH Attorney General’s office related to the Windham 2020 voting results, the AccuVote device was “originally manufactured by Unisys, then by Global elections Systems, Inc., which are no longer in business.”

The letter also claims that Dominion “owns the intellectual property of the AccuVote and its related elections management system,” but that Dominion “does not manufacture the device.” The letter also says that the AccuVote devices that have been used in New Hampshire elections for 25+ years are no longer manufactured. Recounts there found the machines to have shorted each Republican candidate on the ballot some 300 votes.

Other studies have reviewed this Diebold AccuVote-TS machine as well.

Exhibit 2: Princeton I.T. and Computer Science Study on Diebold AccuVote
Exhibit 2 is titled “Security Analysis of the Diebold AccuVote-TS Voting Machine” and is coauthored by Ariel J. Feldman, J. Alex Halderman, and Edward W. Felten of the Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) and Department of Computer Science in conjunction with the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University.

The paper claims itself “fully independent” and is a security study of both hardware and software of the AccuVote, which it says is “the most widely used voting platform in the United States” along with its “newer relative,” the AccuVote-TSX. It concludes that “analysis of the machine, in light of real election procedures, shows that it is vulnerable to extremely serious attacks.” It says that “an attacker who gets physical access to a machine or its removable memory card for as little as one minute could install malicious code” that could undetectably steal votes and modify “all records, logs, and counters to be consistent with the fraudulent vote count it creates.”

Further, with equipment configured as studied, “An attacker could also create malicious code that spreads automatically and silently from machine to machine during normal election activities—a voting-machine virus.” The researchers say that they created working demonstrations of such attacks in the safety of their lab.



Scribd doc on website

Exhibit 3: Florida Election’ Dominion Machine Test
Exhibit 3 is a March 2012 “Voting System Qualification Test Report” from the Florida Department of State Division of Elections under Secretary of State Ken Detzner.

It is a summary describing the process by which Dominion Voting System hardware and software proposed to be used in Florida elections was evaluated and tested, and subsequently certified. It references audit of software code including OSX firmware Version 1.2.7 and GEMS Software, Release 1.21.6, Version 1. Hardware analysis includes the AccuVote-OS, AccuVote-OSX, AccuVote-TSX, AutoMARK voter Assisted Terminal (VAT), and PCS 900/960/960B.



Scrind doc on website

It appears as a rigorous protocol for testing the systems, including procedures for testing various pen and oval marking combinations, mock recounts, simulated catastrophic failure, and concluding with test results that say there “were no unexpected outcomes resulting from any of the test activities conducted in the examination of the voting system,” while referring specifically to “regressed protective count” and “future date stamp” problems for which tests were run, saying no such problems were encountered.

Exhibit 4: Curling v. Kemp and Appeal in Fulton County, GA
Exhibit 4 is a civil complaint, which is a legal document that initiates a lawsuit and informs the defendant of the claims against them, from Curling v. Kemp et al. This case is a civil suit filed August 4, 2017, in the Superior Court of Fulton County Georgia. Plaintiff is the Coalition for Good Governance, along with several individuals who claim standing for damages by the State of Georgia. Defendants are Secretary of State Brian Kemp acting as Chair of the State Election Board, other members of that Board, and various Fulton County election administrators.


Scribd doc on website

The Plaintiffs sought injunction prior to the 2018 elections. Still, they were denied in a decision signed September 17, 2018, that said:

“The Plaintiffs did not bring their preliminary injunction motions in a sufficient time span to allow for thoughtful, though expedited, remedial relief… Upon considering the totality of the evidence… the Court finds that the Plaintiffs have not carried their burden of persuasion to establish [the] prerequisites for such extraordinary injunctive relief…”

Court opinion was not, however, entirely favorable to the State Defendants, whom it says:

“…have delayed in grappling with the heightened critical cybersecurity issues of our era,” and calls the existing election design of Georgia a “dated, vulnerable voting system that provides no independent paper audit trail.” The court further opined that it is “gravely concerned ” that Georgia elections officials have “…stood by for far too long, given the mounting tide of evidence of the inadequacy and security risks” of systems and software in Georgia and of “serious vulnerabilities of its voting system… which were raised as early as 2016.” The court concluded that “further delay is not tolerable.”

The Atlanta Georgia Court’s conclusionary remarks continue:

“Advanced persistent threats in this data-driven world and ordinary hacking are unfortunately here to stay. Defendants will fail to address that reality if they demean as paranoia the research-based findings of national cybersecurity engineers and experts in the field of elections.”

Plaintiff’s request for various injunctions would compel changes to the election process in Georgia aiming to increase election integrity. Now in appeals post-2018 elections, the injunctions would only apply to the 2020 election and beyond. They were granted in part and denied in part by Judge Amy Totenberg, who stated:

“The narrowly tailored relief order directs that the State Defendants provide at least a modicum of the voting backup plan tools essential to protecting voters’ constitutionally protected ability and right to cast a ballot that is counted and given the same weight as any other,” and further noted, “It is not too late for Defendants to take these reasonable concrete measures to mitigate the real potential harms that would otherwise likely transpire at precinct polling locations,” by the 2020 General.

Future articles will further summarize the rest of the exhibits in Mike Lindell v. Dominion / Smartmatic et. al.

Also, see our breakdown of “Exhibit 12” that Patrick Byrne called the “MOAB.”

 

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Georgia to Tour Maricopa County Arizona Election Audit

Maricopa County, Arizona, is the location of the premiere audit of the 2020 General election, conducted by CyberNinjas an...

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Georgia to be Second State to Tour Maricopa County Arizona Election Audit
June 8, 2021

Maricopa County, Arizona, is the location of the premiere audit of the 2020 General election, conducted by CyberNinjas and funded in part by The America Project, one of few donors publicly known.

Pennsylvania sent a delegation to tour the audit floor that included Pennsylvania Senator Chris Dush, a former Master Sargeant in the Air Force with experience handling classified material. He spoke positively about the way the audit is being conducted in public interviews.

Now Disclose.tv is reporting that Georgia is sending a delegation that includes State Senators Burt Jones and Brandon Beach. John Fredricks hinted a Georgia visit might occur on Warroom Pandemic last week and named Jones and Beach.

Georgia Republican State Senators: Burt Jones(L) District 25 and Brandon Beach(R) District 21

Jones was elected in 2012 and serves as a member of the Appropriations, Finance, and Government Oversight Committees. Beach has been Senator since 2013 and is Chairman of the Transportation Committee and a member of the Economic Development, Higher Education, and Science and Technology committees.

Neither Jones nor Beach has tweeted about the news or released information on their official political websites. We’ve reached out for comment but have not received a response at this time. This article will update with any responses received.

Georgia’s governor is Republican Brian Kemp. We reported on his signing of the Republican-sponsored S.B. 202 ‘Election Integrity Act of 2021’ in March after it passed the Georgia State House. Georgia’s Secretary of State is Brad Raffensperger. UDC reported that both men had been the targets of petitions for recall over election integrity concerns.

VoterGA and Look Ahead America (LAA) are among the organizations leading election integrity efforts in Georgia. LAA is the group that provided the “Georgia Report” that claims to show that Georgia’s election winner is unknowable beyond a reasonable doubt.

We recently reported that an audit of approximately 147,000 absentee ballots in Fulton County, Georgia, was postponed. Arizona Representative Mark Finchem came on the Dark to Light podcast, and UncoverDC has reported on the Maricopa County, Arizona audit throughout the election integrity process.

 

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Former Obama AG Eric Holder, Held In Contempt of Congress Charge, Again Ignores Constitution and Says DOJ Should Stop 2020 Election Audit of Maricopa County | The Gateway Pundit | by Joe Hoft

A crook who gets away with crimes is more likely to commit more crimes. This is human nature and this is Eric Holder. Obama’s first US Attorney General was arguably the most corrupt AG in US history. He was the only AG ever held in contempt of Congress charges. This was for refusing to address...

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Former Obama AG Eric Holder, Held In Contempt of Congress Charge, Again Ignores Constitution and Says DOJ Should Stop 2020 Election Audit of Maricopa County

By Joe Hoft
Published June 8, 2021 at 6:32pm

A crook who gets away with crimes is more likely to commit more crimes. This is human nature and this is Eric Holder.

Obama’s first US Attorney General was arguably the most corrupt AG in US history. He was the only AG ever held in contempt of Congress charges. This was for refusing to address the concerns of Congress related to the Fast and Furious campaign.

Now the corrupt former AG is urging the Department he once led, the Department of Justice, to interfere in the audit taking place in Maricopa County, Arizona. Unfortunately for Holder, the Constitution of the US and of Arizona allows the Arizona Senate to perform an audit of the county’s 2020 Election results. Interfering with this audit would be against the US and Arizona state constitutions and would therefore be illegal.

The Democrats are trying to label the audit a mess. The polished former AG Holder calls it a ‘fraudit’ but nothing could be further from the truth.

The Washington Examiner reported on Holder’s remarks:

Former Attorney General Eric Holder offered strong words of condemnation on Monday for what he called a “fraudit” after MSNBC host Rachel Maddow brought up recent controversies related to voting rights and the GOP-led Arizona Senate’s audit in the state’s most populous county.

“All the things they are doing now are counterproductive. They are without basis, and they will hurt, they will harm, our hard-won democracy,” Holder said, referring to the Maricopa review and similar efforts sprouting in places across the country as former President Donald Trump pushes claims of fraud in the 2020 presidential contest.

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Holder never should have gotten near the DOJ. He has no idea what’s going on in Arizona. He only barks because that’s what Obama tells him to do.

If Holder cared for integrity and the truth he would be encouraging the Arizona audit and audits everywhere, he wouldn’t be trying to stop them.

Holder and the rest of the cabal are scared to death and don’t want to be found out.

 

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Pennsylvania State Senator Mastriano Says State Could Have Arizona-Style Election Audit Set Up by July (VIDEO) | The Gateway Pundit | by Jim Hoft

Last week Pennsylvania state lawmakers traveled south to tour the Arizona elections audit center in Phoenix.

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Pennsylvania State Senator Mastriano Says State Could Have Arizona-Style Election Audit Set Up by July (VIDEO)

By Jim Hoft
Published June 8, 2021 at 7:53pm

Last week Pennsylvania state lawmakers traveled south to tour the Arizona elections audit center in Phoenix.

On Wednesday, a Pennsylvania delegation was escorted into the Veterans Memorial Coliseum in Arizona for an on-the-scene tour of the audit facility.

The team from PA, consisted of State Senator Doug Mastriano, State Senator Cris Dush, and State Rep. Rob Kauffman and their staff. The group received a briefing from Arizona legislators in the morning. They then took a tour of the entire audit facility, as we reported earlier today.

Pennsylvania State Senator Doug Mastriano told The Gateway Pundit’s Jordan Conradson that if Pennsylvania performs an audit, the Arizona audit will be the model.

Now in a recent interview, Senator Mastriano told Jenna Ellis on Real America’s Voice that an Arizona-style audit in Pennsylvania could be ready to go by July.

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Via Just the News:

Pennsylvania Republican state Sen. Doug Mastriano said Tuesday he thinks Pennsylvania could have an Arizona-style election audit by July.

“If we had the support with the majority of the members in any committee we do this from, and from the body [Senate] itself, probably July, we could see it,” Mastriano said on Real America’s Voice’s “Just The Truth” with Jena Ellis.

Mastriano, along with fellow Pennsylvania state Sen. Cris Dush and stat Rep. Rob Kauffman, met with Arizona officials and politicians last week to tour the Arizona Republican-backed forensic audit of the 2020 election.

Mastriano said there are several ways the state could issue an election audit. A state Senate committee would use its subpoena powers to send a letter to a county or several counties to declare its intention to issue an audit of votes.

 

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GA Senator Burt Jones Speaks to TGP's Conradson after AZ Audit Tour: "Very Well Organized, Very Businesslike Operation" - GA Secretary of State Is Trying to Put Obstacles Up | The Gateway Pundit | by Jordan Conradson

On Tuesday, State legislators from Georgia, Alaska, and Colorado made a pilgrimage to Arizona in order to review the groundbreaking Arizona audit’s procedures and logistics on the spot.

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GA Senator Burt Jones Speaks to TGP’s Conradson after AZ Audit Tour: “Very Well Organized, Very Businesslike Operation” – GA Secretary of State Is Trying to Put Obstacles Up

By Jordan Conradson
Published June 8, 2021 at 8:07pm

On Tuesday, State legislators from Georgia, Alaska, and Colorado made a pilgrimage to Arizona in order to review the groundbreaking Arizona audit’s procedures and logistics on the spot.


The Gateway Pundit reported on this landmark moment as it happened.



Delegations have been coming to Arizona to examine the process and what it would take to replicate it. Last week a delegation from Pennsylvania traveled to the audit center.

Today, Georgia, Alaska and Colorado visited the center. And more delegations are expected at the center EVERY DAY THIS WEEK!

That’s not all! The hand recount is expected to be completed this week, and we will have a result on who won Maricopa County in the coming weeks.

After a delegation consisting of Georgia State Senator Burt Jones, State Senator Brandon Beach and Garland Favorito toured the facility, TGP’s Jordan Conradson spoke to Sen. Burt Jones for his thoughts on the process.

Conradson: I know you did a walkthrough of the full forensic audit here in Arizona. Can you give me a quick walkthrough of what you and other legislators did today?

State Sen. Burt Jones: we came out here with a team of auditors who are working on the current case in Fulton County, Georgia, and we really just come out here for a fact-finding mission. You know, we heard a lot about what was going on in Arizona, a lot of good, lot of bad so we said we had come out here and to see for ourselves. We did that, what we saw inside the auditorium was a very well organized, very businesslike operation that was going on. Which gave the people working on Fulton County’s case some good ideas, and you know, they learn some things they might want to do, they learn some things you might not want to do. So, it all in all was a good day, and I appreciate the hospitality from the good people out here in Arizona.

Conradson: So, what do you think of the actual process itself was it secure was it transparent?

State Sen. Burt Jones: It looked very secure looked very transparent I mean they had security all in the arena, they had multiple people at each table. You know, 3 counters at each table and then they had protocols and steps in place to verify, and verify again, and verify three or four times over. The tabulation and things of that nature, so it looks very secure and I know that they’ll be ready to get the process done.

Conradson: Is this a process you plan to replicate in Georgia?

State Sen. Burt Jones: I don’t know you know, we’ve got the Fulton County lawsuits going on I’m trying to be as helpful, trying to be as helpful as we can from the state’s side with that lawsuit and we just have to see what the findings are from that and then go from there.

Conradson: Can you tell me what the next step is after the lawsuit?

State Sen. Burt Jones: You don’t know until they finish their process.

Conradson: Is there anyone in Georgia that’s dragging their feet and holding this process behind?

State Sen. Burt Jones: Fulton county’s fighting you know and the Secretary of State has been trying to put up obstacles in front of it as well, but thankfully the judge is being very judicial and it seems it seems they’re being very fair and working through the process, and so we’ll just see what happens there.

This is a very secure and transparent process, as we have been told by everybody but the mainstream media and Democrats

This audit should find its way through courts with no problems as it is Georgia’s right to audit their vote. Secretary of State Ben Raffensperger needs to stand down and yield to GA voters if we are to get a result out of Georgia.

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Why A Judge Has Georgia Vote Fraud On His Mind: "Pristine" Biden Ballots That Looked Xerox'd

WEDNESDAY, JUN 09, 2021 - 12:05 AM
Authored by Paul Sperry via RealClearInvestigations.com,

When Fulton County, Ga., poll manager Suzi Voyles sorted through a large stack of mail-in ballots last November, she noticed an alarmingly odd pattern of uniformity in the markings for Joseph R. Biden. One after another, the absentee votes contained perfectly filled-in ovals for Biden — except that each of the darkened bubbles featured an identical white void inside them in the shape of a tiny crescent, indicating they'd been marked with toner ink instead of a pen or pencil.



Adding to suspicions, she noticed that all of the ballots were printed on different stock paper than the others she handled as part of a statewide hand recount of the razor-thin Nov. 3 presidential election. And none was folded or creased, as she typically observed in mail-in ballots that had been removed from envelopes.

In short, the Biden votes looked like they’d been duplicated by a copying machine.

“All of them were strangely pristine," said Voyles, who said she’d never seen anything like it in her 20 years monitoring elections in Fulton County, which includes much of Atlanta.

She wasn’t alone.

At least three other poll workers observed the same thing in stacks of absentee ballots for Biden processed by the county, and they have joined Voyles in swearing under penalty of perjury that they looked fake.

Now election watchdogs have used their affidavits to help convince a state judge to unseal all of the 147,000 mail-in ballots counted in Fulton and allow a closer inspection of the suspicious Biden ballots for evidence of counterfeiting. They argue that potentially tens of thousands may have been manufactured in a race that Biden won by just 12,000 votes thanks to a late surge of mail-in ballots counted after election monitors were shooed from State Farm Arena in Atlanta.

"We have what is almost surely major absentee-ballot fraud in Fulton County involving 10,000 to 20,000 probably false ballots,” said Garland Favorito, the lead petitioner in the case and a certified poll watcher who runs VoterGa.org, one of the leading advocates for election integrity in the state.

He said the suspect ballots remain in the custody of the election officials and inaccessible from public view.

“We have confirmed that there are five pallets of shrink-wrapped ballots in a county warehouse,” Favorito said in an interview with RealClearInvestigations.

He and other petitioners were ordered to meet at the warehouse May 28 to settle the terms of the inspection of the absentee ballots. But the day before the scheduled meeting, the county filed a flurry of motions to dismiss the case, delaying the inspection indefinitely.

“We will be in court on June 21 to resolve these motions,” said Favorito, calling them another “roadblock” the county has tried to throw in their way. He expects talks over the logistics of the inspection to resume after the Fourth of July holiday.

As part of his May 21 order, Superior Court Judge Brian Amero requested officials guard the warehouse around the clock until an inspection date can be set. But just eight days later, a breach in security was reported after sheriff’s deputies left their post for a couple of hours.

“The front door was [found] unlocked and wide open in violation of the court order,” Favorito said.

County officials confirmed that a motion-detection alarm was triggered Saturday, May 29, shortly after the deputies drove away from the building in their patrol cars around 4 p.m. But they said a locked room where the ballots are kept “was never breached or compromised.”

Favorito is not convinced, and his lawyer is seeking to obtain the video footage from building security cameras. “How do we know for certain there was no tampering with the ballots?” asked Favorito, who said he did not vote for Trump. News of the security lapse caught the attention of former President Trump, who has claimed his loss to Biden was marred by fraud. In a statement, he implied election officials in the Democratic-controlled county are trying to hide evidence of fraud.

"They are afraid of what might be found,” he asserted.

Trump is also closely monitoring the ongoing election audit in Arizona, another red state that turned blue in 2020. If evidence of fraud is found in these key swing states, it might help confirm suspicions the election was “stolen" from Trump and the 74 million who voted for him -- as a recent poll found 61% of Republicans believe -- as well as provide the proof of voter fraud that Democrats and major media have long claimed doesn’t exist.

The cases could potentially give other battleground states incentive to take steps to tighten election security and root out fraud, including passing legislation to limit the use of controversial mail-in drop boxes and require the verification of signatures on such ballots. In Georgia, relatively few mail-in ballots were rejected for invalid signatures in the November general election, even though several thousand had been disqualified for signature issues in the primary election.

In a move that inspired national boycotts alleging voter "suppression," Georgia recently passed a law limiting, but not removing, the drop boxes. The state had installed them for the first time in 2020 under pressure from Democratic groups, who argued officials needed to make voting easier for minorities who didn’t trust the mail and feared going to the polls during the COVID scare.

The 38 drop boxes Fulton distributed throughout the county in the November election will be cut to eight in the future. The boxes had been largely unregulated and unattended — located outdoors, open 24 hours a day and available for drop-offs until the evening of Election Day, prompting complaints of ballot stuffing and double voting. But now they have to be located inside election offices or early voting locations, and can only be available during the hours when early voting is permitted. The new law also requires ballots be printed on special security paper.

Voting by mail traditionally was limited to voters who had clearly defined and well-documented reasons to be absent from the polls. But Democrats in key swing states lobbied to relax the rules in the middle of the election and amid the coronavirus pandemic.

Mail-in or drop-off ballots create opportunities for voter error and fraud. In a typical election, one in 20 mailed ballots are rejected, according to recent studies. More than 534,000 mail-in ballots were rejected during the 2020 Democratic primaries alone.

Still, both Republican and Democratic officials in Georgia say they have found no credible evidence of widespread fraud in the general election. Democrats, as well as many major media outlets, have written off Favorito’s group's allegations of fraud as “conspiracy theories.”

“This is nothing more than a circus that’s being put on by those who promote the ‘big lie’ ” that Trump won the election, said Robb Pitts, the Democratic chairman of the Fulton County Board of Commissioners.

“Where does it end? The votes have been counted. The elections have been certified. It’s over."

Pitts effectively controls the county elections board through his Democratic appointee Mary Carole Cooney, who runs the board. They are in charge of securing the pallets of disputed Biden mail-in ballots awaiting inspection in the county warehouse.

But Judge Amero, who federal elections records show is a Democratic donor, felt compelled to unseal the ballots for a forensics review after reading the sworn affidavits submitted by election monitors. Here are key witnesses in the case:

Suzi Voyles, a veteran Fulton poll manager who audited the Nov. 14 recount at Georgia World Congress Center, testified she examined several stacks of ballots of about 100 ballots each from a cardboard box marked “Box No. 5 — Absentee — Batch Numbers 28-36.” She said these ballots “came from the ballot [drop] boxes that had been placed throughout Fulton County.”

"Most of the ballots had already been handled; they had been written on by people, and the edges were worn. They showed obvious use,” she wrote in her Nov. 17 affidavit. "However, one batch stood out. It was pristine. There was a difference in the texture of the paper,” and these mail-in ballots hadn’t been folded even though they ostensibly had been removed from envelopes.

All but three of the 110 ballots in the bundle — which had been labeled “State Farm Arena” — were marked for Biden and appeared to be “identical ballots."

The most “alarming peculiarity” was the identically marked ovals next to Biden’s name. In every ballot, “The bubble next to ‘Joseph R. Biden’ had a slight white eclipse in the bubble,” she said, leading her to believe that the batch of 107 Biden ballots had been “copied" from a single ballot.

Voyles speculated that “additional absentee ballots had been added [for Biden] in a fraudulent manner” at the State Farm Arena in Atlanta on election night.

The void she and other auditors witnessed in the exact same spot of the oval filled in on 107 ballots for Biden “was alarming to us,” Voyles said in an RCI interview. “Every single bubble was precisely alike. I had never seen that before in 20 years” of election monitoring.

But when she and other recount workers raised concerns with county election officials, “we were told not to worry about it,” she said. “They seemed uninterested in the [integrity of the] ballots.”

After Voyles later blew the whistle in affidavits and state election hearings, she was fired as a poll manager by the Fulton County Department of Elections. “I got the boot for speaking the truth,” she told RCI.

Robin Hall, a certified Fulton County recount observer, also testified she witnessed a number of boxes of absentee ballots marked “100% for Biden” that appeared to be “perfectly filled out as if they were pre-printed with the presidential candidate selected.” She stated: “They did not look like a person had filled this out at home. All of them looked alike."

Judy Aube also worked at the World Congress Center on Nov. 14 where she observed the same thing: “suspicious batches" of mail-in ballots for Biden whose markings appeared identical, as if they had been duplicated by a machine and not filled out by a voter at home.

Barbara Hartman, another election official auditor, also doubted the authenticity of absentee ballots she handled that she said were never folded, as would normally be the case for ballots returned in an envelope by mail or dropped in a box. “The absentee ballots looked as though they had just come from a fresh stack,” she swore in her affidavit. "I could not observe any creases in the ballots and [it] did not seem like they were folded and put into envelopes or mailed out.” Also, “The majority of the mail-in ballots that I reviewed contained suspicious black perfectly bubbled markings for Biden,” Hartman stated, adding that “they looked as if they were stamped."

The veteran poll watchers found no plausible explanation for the anomalies other than possible fraud.

However, election officials have offered an explanation for why the mail-in ballots examined in the stacks did not have folds or creases. They say ballots are sometimes copied onto other paper when they are too damaged to be fed through one of the scanning machines during tabulation. The mailed ballots can be torn or crumpled by postal workers during delivery or by poll workers while opening them and removing them from envelopes, which could prevent the machines from reading them.


From controversial video at State Farm Arena, Atlanta, showing ballots being pulled from under tables. WSB-TV/YouTube

But Favorito suspects the hundreds, if not thousands, of allegedly duplicate absentee ballots for Biden might be connected to spikes in votes for Biden he observed late on election night in Fulton County after election officials cleared monitors from State Farm Arena and pulled cases full of ballots out from under tables and began scanning them.

“There’s always the chance it was an inside job,” said Favorito, a career IT professional who's been a leading advocate for Georgia election integrity over the past two decades.

On Nov. 3, Fulton County elections officials informed monitors that they were shutting down the State Farm tabulation center before midnight, only to continue counting throughout the night while no one was watching.

“Election workers don’t bring ballots in after the supervisor has delayed processing until the morning, hide them under a table and then bring them out for scanning and tabulation after the supervisor tells [monitors] they are done scanning for the evening and they go home,” Favorito said.

“Once scanning [was] completed, an election line feed showed an unprecedented vote spike that turned the election in favor of Biden,” he added. In fact, “just over a half hour after workers scanned the potentially fraudulent ballots, an election line feed showed a 100,000-plus vote spike for Biden.”

“Where did those ballots come from and why did they handle them so suspiciously?” Favorito asked.

Voyles noted that the county elections supervisor who oversaw the secret scanning of the cases full of ballots also helps run the warehouse where the suspect ballots are being stored.

Phone calls and emails to Fulton County went unanswered.

Similar Anomalies, Other Counties
Favorito pointed out that the potential for counterfeit ballots exists in other Georgia counties, not just Fulton.

In fact, two Democrat poll workers blew the whistle on similar anomalies they witnessed in neighboring DeKalb and Cobb counties, where the election process also is controlled by Democrats.

Carlos E. Silva, for one, declared in a Nov. 17 affidavit that he observed a similar "perfect black bubble” in absentee ballots for Biden during the recount he worked in DeKalb County. And while overseeing the Cobb County recount, he swore he “observed absentee ballots being reviewed with the same perfect bubble that I had seen the night before in DeKalb. All of these ballots had the same characteristics: they were all for Biden and had the same perfect bubble.”

Added Silva, a registered Democrat: “There were thousands of [mail-in] ballots that just had the perfect bubble marked for Biden and no other markings in the rest of the ballot.”

Another registered Democrat, Mayra Romera, testified that while monitoring the Cobb County recount, she noticed that “hundreds of these ballots seemed impeccable, with no folds or creases. The bubble selections were perfectly made ... and all happened to be selections for Biden."

In a recent article pooh-poohing complaints of fraud in Georgia, as well as Arizona, the New York Times portrayed Favorito as “a known conspiracy theorist” and suggested he was a 9/11 truther. As evidence, it cited a 2002 book he published “questioning the origin of the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.”

Asked about it, Favorito responded: “My book did not propose any theories on what happened on 9/11. I don’t mention anything about explosives” planted in the World Trade Center, as truthers have baselessly speculated. Rather, he said, he questioned Bush family business connections with the bin Laden family and other wealthy Saudis, and argued that the war on terror benefited the Bushes. He also faulted the Bush administration for “obstructing" FBI investigations into the attacks.

Favorito says he is a “constitutionalist” and neither a Republican nor a Trump supporter.

 

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H.R. 1 Reintroduced Piecemeal Through Similar Legislation in the States - UncoverDC

While the 117th Congress' House Resolution 1 ‘For the People’ is awaiting a vote in the Senate, the Voter Integrity Project of Look Ahead America (LAA) has released a comprehensive state-by-state report of "attempts to pass dangerous elements of HR1 through state legislatures."

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H.R. 1 Reintroduced Piecemeal Through Similar Legislation in the States
By
John B. Nevin
-June 8, 2021

While the 117th Congress House Resolution 1 ‘For the People’ is awaiting a vote in the Senate, the Voter Integrity Project of Look Ahead America (LAA) has released a comprehensive state-by-state report of “attempts to pass dangerous elements of HR1 through state legislatures.”

UncoverDC wrote about H.R.1 in March, and now Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer says he will bring the bill up for voting later this month, but West Virginia Senator, Joe Manchin, has expressed vocal opposition, making passage questionable. The bill has wide implications and would affect all three branches of the federal government, including election law.

It was called “clean elections reform” by Democrat sponsor John Sarbanes and summarized as a bill that would “expand Americans’ access to the ballot box, reduce the influence of big money in politics, strengthen ethics rules for public servants, and implement other anti-corruption measures for the purpose of fortifying our democracy.”

Republican Senator Ted Cruz wrote:

“They wrote it to expand voter fraud and try to ensure that they’ll never lose again. The bill mandates registering nearly everyone in the country to vote, regardless of their eligibility, prevents states from maintaining the integrity of their voting rolls or removing dead people, and requires that felons be allowed to vote.”

He went on to summarize other aims of the wide-ranging bill by saying:

“The bill requires states to allow universal, no-excuse mail-in voting… states can’t require IDs to vote, and the bill makes it nearly impossible to challenge signature matches without the agreement of a Democrat. Moreover, it allows Democratic operatives to collect and submit unlimited ballots—opening the door to widespread fraud—and requires counting these ballots even if they arrive 10 days after Election Day.”

Matt Braynard, Executive Director of LAA, wrote in an email to subscribers,

“You may have thought HR1 was dead, but let us assure you, it is not. Progressives have broken the federal legislation up into components that they are trying to sneak through state legislatures. Our research group has documented this conspiracy.”

Calling the report and the effort to reintroduce parts of H.R. 1 through the state legislatures “The Hidden Agenda,” the May 28 report analyzed 1,144 pieces of legislation to find what “seemed like H.R. 1 introduced in almost every state,” with Texas and New York having the most. The report then lists every bit by state and bill number, with links to the state government website where they can be found.



The report does not specify what portions of the H.R. 1 legislation are included in each bill specifically but does provide a readable description of a few words for each such as, “Automatic Registration,” “Felons Voting,” “Weakened Voter ID,” and “Drop Boxes.” On the report’s summary page at the LAA website, notable examples are given.

HB2864 in West Virginia would allow felons to vote, while 16-year-olds in Texas could vote if SB1899 is passed. H788 in Massachusetts mandates voting by all citizens, with a $15 fine for failure to comply (LAA’s page lists 765, which is actually a separate bill related to H.R. 1 – type initiatives.) Connecticut, which is not mentioned on LAA’s summary page, also has similar legislation that imposes a fine for not voting.

LAA’s analysis concludes with a statement that says:

“We believe that sunlight is the best disinfectant,” and requests that supporters contact state representatives and senators about the bills.

LAA was formed in response to the 2020 elections and has focused on election integrity. UncoverDC has previously reported on LAA and we will continue to cover their ongoing efforts.

 

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[VIDEO] Obama’s Facial Expression, Voice, and Body Language Says “Defeated” in New CNN Interview
There doesn’t appear to be much fight left in him

BY SOPHIE O’HARA
JUNE 8, 2021

It looks like Obama’s efforts to bolster the 2020 election results are running out of steam.

He and many others were quick to validate the integrity of the election shortly after the results were read, but now, nearly half a year later, it appears that the effort has dwindled, especially with the recount efforts in Arizona and New Hampshire…not to mention polling that shows a vast amount of Americans believe the election was “stolen.”

During a recent interview with CNN, Obama’s body language and tone definitely signified that something was amiss with his outlook on the recount efforts and he actually said “we’ve got a problem.”

Yes, you do have a problem, Barry…we don’t believe you…

Check it out:

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1402064753992818689

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2:20 min

It looks like the wind has really been blown out of old Barack’s sails.

You can’t really blame him.

How is he supposed to defend Biden at this point?

Race relations are no better, the economy is in the toilet and our southern border is an absolute catastrophic.

And not to mention the latest jobs report, which definitely isn’t painting a bright future.

From Politico
On the heels of April’s sluggish job growth, which shocked economic forecasters and sparked debate over a nationwide worker shortage, the May data will be closely watched for an indication of whether something significant is holding back the labor-market recovery — such as what Republicans say are overly generous federal unemployment benefits — or whether the previous data was nothing more than a one-month blip.

Democrats have downplayed the concerns, maintaining that the path back to full employment was always going to be winding and stacked with challenges. And economists are predicting the report will show 630,000 jobs were created in May, a robust number. But while Biden has been polling strongly on his handling of the economy, a second straight month of slower-than-expected job creation could embolden critics of his multitrillion-dollar infrastructure spending plans and raise fears that the labor market is facing a long road back to normal.

It’s honestly a miracle that people are even still trying to defend this administration at this point.

It looks like Obama’s “third term” isn’t going as great as he expected.

 

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The Vulnerabilities of Our Voting Machines

When Americans go to the polls, will hackers unleash chaos?

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The Vulnerabilities of Our Voting Machines
When Americans go to the polls, will hackers unleash chaos?

• By Jen Schwartz on November 1, 2018

Credit: Getty Images

A few weeks ago computer scientist J. Alex Halderman rolled an electronic voting machine onto a Massachusetts Institute of Technology stage and demonstrated how simple it is to hack an election.

In a mock contest between George Washington and Benedict Arnold three volunteers each voted for Washington. But Halderman, whose research involves testing the security of election systems, had tampered with the ballot programming, infecting the machine’s memory card with malicious software. When he printed out the results, the receipt showed Arnold had won, 2 to 1.

Without a paper trail of each vote, neither the voters nor a human auditor could check for discrepancies. In real elections, too, about 20 percent of voters nationally still cast electronic ballots only.

As the U.S. midterm elections approach, Halderman, among others, has warned our “outmoded and under-tested” electronic voting systems are increasingly vulnerable to attacks. They can also lead to confusion. Some early voters in Texas have already reported votes they cast for Democratic U.S. Senate challenger Beto O’Rourke were switched on-screen to incumbent Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. There’s no evidence of hacking, and the particular machines in question are known to have software bugs, which could account for the errors.

Halderman does not think an attack is to blame. “If it was, the candidate switch wouldn’t be visible to either the voter nor election officials,” he says. “But what’s happening in Texas is another warning sign of aging machines not functioning well, which makes them fertile ground for vote-stealing attacks.”

Ultimately—whether scenarios like the one in Texas stem from glitchy software, defective machinery or an adversarial hack—one outcome is a loss of confidence in our election process. And as cybersecurity journalist Kim Zetter recently wrote in The New York Times Magazine, “It’s not too grand to say that if there’s a failure in the ballot box, then democracy fails.”

Halderman, who directs the University of Michigan Center for Computing and Society, recently spoke with Scientific American about the different types of technological threats to democracy—and how good old-fashioned paper can safeguard elections.

Electronic voting machine. Credit: Elijah Nouvelage Getty Images
[An edited transcript of the interview follows:]

It seems like election interference is occurring all around us, in so many different ways.

How is the hacking of voting-machine software related to the disinformation campaigns that show up in our Facebook feeds?

Technology is transforming democracy on a lot of different levels, and they’re not entirely connected. But they all create vulnerabilities in the way that society forms political opinions, expresses those opinions and translates them into election results.

One form of Russian meddling in the 2016 election, for example, was social media campaigns, which affect political discourse at the level of opinions formed by individuals. But the second prong—the hacking into campaigns, like John Podesta’s e-mail—was just so sinister in the way it was picking only on one side. That gets to the very roots of how open societies traditionally rely on information gathering and the media in order to make sound political decisions.

And then there’s the third form of hacking: going after the machinery of elections, the infrastructure, polling places, voter registration systems, etcetera. That’s where most of my work has been.

How did you end up investigating voting security?
It was literally dropped into my lap while I was in grad school at Princeton in 2006. No research group had ever had access to a U.S. voting machine in order to do a security analysis, and an anonymous group offered to give us one to study. Back then there was quite a dispute between researchers who hypothesized there would be vulnerabilities in polling place equipment and the manufacturers that insisted everything was fine.

Over the past decade, how has the field of election cybersecurity changed?
It has moved away from a position of hubris. Now that there have been major academic studies there is scientific consensus that here will be vulnerabilities in polling place equipment.

Sometimes the risks or probable failure modes of new technology are totally foreseeable. And that was certainly the case in voting. As paperless computer voting machines were being introduced, there were many computer scientists who—before anyone had even studied one of these machines directly—were saying, “This just isn’t a good idea to have elections be conducted by, essentially, black box technology.”

On the other hand, the ways in which these failures will be exploited—and the implications of that exploitation—are sometimes a bit harder to foresee. When we did the first voting machine study 10 years ago, we talked about a range of different possible attackers, dishonest election officials and corrupt candidates. But the notion that it would be a foreign government cyber attack, that that would be one of the biggest problems to worry about—well, that was pretty far down on the list. Over the past 10 years cyber warfare went from something that seemed like science fiction to something you read about every almost every day in the newspaper.

2016 really did change everything. It taught us that our threat models were wrong. I think it caught much of the intelligence community off guard, and it caught much of the cybersecurity community off guard. It was surreal to see Russia get so close to actually exploiting the vulnerabilities to harm us.

The Department of Homeland Security and intelligence community say there’s no evidence that Russian hackers altered votes in the 2016 presidential election. Can you put “no evidence” in context?

We know for sure that in 2016 the Russians didn’t do everything that they are capable of. Most of the evidence—both of Russian attack and of Russian restraint—is in the context of voter-registration systems, which are another back-end system operated by each state.

If you read carefully the statements of the intelligence communities, our evidence that no votes were changed is that we apparently didn’t hear particular Russian operatives who were responsible for other parts of the attack planning or attempting a vote-manipulation attack. But that’s not very reassuring, because we don’t know what other attackers might have been attempting, for which we might not have the same level of intelligence insight. It’s hard to know what you don’t know. There are other adversaries who certainly benefit from manipulating American elections, including other countries like China or North Korea.

The voting machines themselves have received much, much, much less scrutiny post-2016 from intelligence and defensive sides—as far as we know in the public sphere anyway. To my knowledge, no state has done any kind of rigorous forensics on their voting machines to see whether they had been compromised.

So potentially there’s more going on that’s not being looked at as closely?
That’s right. But what we do know from the Senate Intelligence Committee’s report, based on its investigation of the Russian election interference, was that Russia was in a position to do more damage than they did to the registration systems. They were in a position to modify or destroy data in at least some states’ registration systems, which if it had gone undetected, would have caused massive chaos on Election Day. But they decided not to pull the trigger.

When it comes to voting machines themselves, though, how might malicious code get introduced?
One possibility is that attackers could infiltrate what are called election-management systems. These are small networks of computers operated by the state or the county government or sometimes an outside vendor where the ballot design is prepared.

There’s a programming process by which the design of the ballot—the races and candidates, and the rules for counting the votes—gets produced, and then gets copied to every individual voting machine. Election officials usually copy it on memory cards or USB sticks for the election machines. That provides a route by which malicious code could spread from the centralized programming system to many voting machines in the field. Then the attack code runs on the individual voting machines, and it’s just another piece of software. It has access to all of the same data that the voting machine does, including all of the electronic records of people’s votes.

So how do you infiltrate the company or state agency that programs the ballot design? You can infiltrate their computers, which are connected to the internet. Then you can spread malicious code to voting machines over a very large area. It creates a tremendously concentrated target for attack.

Where does this leave us heading into the midterms?
Although there’s greatly increased security awareness (and increased protection for registration systems in particular) compared to 2016, there are so many gaps left in election security—particularly when it comes to polling place equipment. It would certainly be possible to sabotage election systems in ways that would cause massive chaos. If nothing happens this November, it’s going to be because our adversaries chose not to pull the trigger. Not because they had no way of doing us harm.

What if an adversary’s goal isn’t widespread chaos, but something subtler?
Unfortunately, it’s also possible to more subtly manipulate things, especially in close elections, in ways that would result in the wrong candidates winning—and with high probability of that not being detected.

I’m thinking about close races for the Senate and the House, such as in Texas and in Georgia.
The broader question is if we’re going to have a tight national contest for control of Congress, it’s going to hinge on a set of swing districts. Because our election system is so distributed, with localities and states making their own critical security decisions, it means some are going to be much weaker than others. And sophisticated adversaries like Russia could try to probe the election security across all of those likely swing districts, find the ones that are most weakly protected and subtly manipulate results in those districts. And if they can do it in enough swing districts, they can flip the outcome—and control of Congress. That’s what’s so scary.

The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine released a report in September that urged all states to adopt paper ballots before 2020. Why is paper best for verifying election outcomes?
The idea of a post-election paper audit is a form of quality control. You want to have people inspect enough of the paper records to confirm with high statistical probability that the outcome on the paper and the outcome on the electronic results is the same. You’re basically doing a random sample. How large a sample you need depends on how close the election result was. If it was a landslide, a very small sample—maybe even just a few hundred random ballots selected from across the state—could be enough to confirm with high statistical confidence that it was indeed a landslide. But if the election result was a tie, well, you need to inspect every ballot to confirm that it was a tie.

The key insight behind auditing as a cyber defense is that if you have a paper record that the voter got to inspect, then that can’t later be changed by a cyber attack. The cost to do so is relatively low. My estimate is it would cost about $25 million a year to audit to high confidence every federal race nationally.

But this strategy is a problem for states like New Jersey and Georgia, where currently there’s no paper trail at all.
Today only about 79 percent of votes across the country are recorded on a piece of paper. If you have no paper trail, then it’s impossible to perform a rigorous audit. At best you’re just hitting the print button again on a computer program. You’re going to get the same result you got the first time, whether it is true or not.

There are about 14 specific states that have gaps where ballots aren’t being recorded on paper, and that’s known to everyone. Georgia, for example, is entirely paperless. And they are also using voting machines with software that hasn’t [had a security patch] since 2005.

What are you most concerned about in the 2018 midterm elections?
That it’s too late to do anything else. Except for maybe some states to tighten up their postelection procedures.

The focus needs to start being on 2020. Because it’s going to take that long for some states to replace their aging and vulnerable voting machines, and to make sure that every state has rigorous postelection audits in place. We have an opportunity to solve this problem. It’s one of the few grand cybersecurity challenges that doesn’t have to be difficult or expensive.

But it’s going to take national leadership and national standards to get there. Otherwise we’re not going to be able to move fast enough or in a coordinated manner, and the attackers that have us in their sights are going to win.

 

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Episode 1: Jesse Morgan

•May 19, 2021



First Principles with Phill Kline

Phill catches up with Jesse Morgan, a truck driver from Central Pennsylvania who found himself thrust into the national spotlight after he decided to speak out about witnessing some highly unusual and deeply suspicious occurrences shortly before Election Day 2020. Jesse recounts his experience transporting a truckload of completed mail-in ballots from Bethpage, NY to Harrisburg and Lancaster, PA, where his trailer mysteriously disappeared in the dead of night. Phill and Jesse also discuss the tension of their very first meeting, as well as Jesse’s unusual experiences in the aftermath of his momentous decision to become a whistleblower.

 

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TAKE OVER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY: "The Precinct Strategy" with Dan Schultz 55:44 min

TAKE OVER THE REPUBLICAN PARTY: "The Precinct Strategy" with Dan Schultz
The Professor's Record with David K. Clements Published June 8, 2021

Rumble — In this episode of the Professor's Record, I interview Dan Schultz on the "Precinct Strategy." Schultz has appeared on Bannon's War Room and is the leading authority on how "We the People" can become precinct committeemen to ensure RINO's see their last days in the "Grand Ol' Party."
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Former GCGOP Chair Nate Leupp orchestrates a walkout - 2/3 of the voting members/quorum remain #Fail

•Jun 8, 2021


mySCGOP PrecinctReOrg

mySCGOP.com - June 7th, 2021 - Greenville County GOP former Chair Nate Leupp orchestrated a “walk out” before GCGOP officers elections, after realizing establishment did not have “the votes”. MAGA patriots stood strong! 2/3 voting members remained … so did quorum! Five remaining officer spots were filled with MAGA CANDIDATES!